SIGsexuals react to March for Our Lives with their usual tact and restraint
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The right wing response to The March for Our Lives continues to be everything one would expect: They’re bouncing back and forth between the first two stages of denial, with frequent side trips to being complete pieces of shit.
Some pleaded for civility while visibly shaking with rage. The American Conservative’s Rod Dreher had vapors because David Hogg implied Senator Marco Rubio’s “price tag” had been met by the NRA. Imagine, saying a politician had been “bought” by a special interest! “That is the horrifying moment that the anti-gun movement lost the chance of ever winning me over,” tsked Dreher. (Spoiler: There was never any chance of winning Dreher over.) Then, to show how seriously he took his own civility argument, Dreher called Hogg a “disgusting little creep.”
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“It was more irritating than anything else,” began Vespa’s colleague Kevin McCullough, that if you merely criticized the Stoneman Douglas kids, “there was an immediate lashing out in response.” So uncivilized! But as he went on, McCullough couldn’t resist a little “lashing out” himself at the “uber-rich and hard-left celebrities” who were paying off these brats; he called Douglas spokesman David Hogg a “maniac, cursing vulgarity with hubris unchecked”; foamed over the “belligerent band of media hyped know-nothings”; and eventually accused the students of trying to “put more children (like mine) at greater risk in years to come.”
Also, mind rape, Hitler, and so on. It’s not surprising. A combination of insults, threats and claims to be the real victim — all while insisting that the people they’re insulting, threatening and victimizing Be Nice — have worked so far. Whether it continues to work will depend on how many NRA-owned politicians still have their day jobs after the next two election cycles.
Update: More staid and reasoned reactions from the right.
