{"id":108009,"date":"2022-05-28T00:33:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T04:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=108009"},"modified":"2022-05-27T19:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T23:51:37","slug":"hardcore-progressives-pounce-on-school-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/hardcore-progressives-pounce-on-school-shootings\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardcore progressives pounce on school shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, hardcore progressives jumped on Tuesday&#8217;s school shootings in Uvalde, Texas to implicate the National Rifle Association and the GOP &#8230; and to even call for the death of Texas Governor Greg Abbott.<\/p>\n<p>One of those involved with the latter is Emma Gonz\u00e1lez, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/parkland-florida-students-to-share-their-expertise-at-harvard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the students<\/a> present during the Parkland, Florida school shootings in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez, who these days goes by the first name &#8220;X&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/sarahd-313035\/2022\/05\/25\/parkland-survivor-x-gonzalez-formerly-known-as-emma-gonzalez-asks-greg-abbott-to-do-us-all-a-favor-and-fcking-die\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and uses<\/a> plural pronouns, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/callmeX\/status\/1529450766108438528\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted out<\/a> early Wednesday morning &#8220;hey greg, why don\u2019t you do us all a favor and fucking die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other targets of X&#8217;s wrath included Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/callmeX\/status\/1529452619038707713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> (&#8220;hey mitch ? what if YOU, and i\u2019m just spitballing here, DID YOUR FUCKING JOB&#8221;) and Florida Senators<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/callmeX\/status\/1529245306474332163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Marco Rubio and Rick Scott<\/a> (&#8220;aiding and abetting. @marcorubio and @SenRickScott you have the power to do something right now. why don\u2019t you just admit that you\u2019re fine with this ?&#8221;)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">hey greg, why don\u2019t you do us all a favor and fucking die <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Iy9V3ODldt\">https:\/\/t.co\/Iy9V3ODldt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; X Gonz\u00e1lez (@callmeX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/callmeX\/status\/1529450766108438528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Like her Parkland peer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?s=david+hogg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Hogg<\/a>, Gonz\u00e1lez has used the 2018 tragedy for social media stardom, garnering almost <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/callmeX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one and a half million followers<\/a> on Twitter. (Hogg has &#8220;only&#8221; 1.1 million, by contrast.) And, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/in-campus-speech-david-hogg-says-u-s-is-stolen-land-justifies-illegal-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like Hogg<\/a>, she believes this notoriety somehow makes her smarter than she actually is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/cops-fired-for-inaction-in-parkland-shooting-get-jobs-back-vacation-pay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cops fired for inaction in Parkland shooting get jobs back, vacation pay<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Gonzalez-Twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Gonzalez-Twitter.jpg 537w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Gonzalez-Twitter-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Gonzalez-Twitter-348x400.jpg 348w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Gonzalez-Twitter-96x110.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the Parkland shootings, Gonz\u00e1lez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/cnn-goads-school-shooting-student-spokesmen-calling-nra-child-murderers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told CNN<\/a> \u201cBecause we keep telling [politicians], that if they accept this [NRA] blood money, they are against the children. They are against the people who are dying. And that \u2014 there\u2019s no other way to put it at this point \u2014 you\u2019re either funding the killers, or you are standing with the children \u2026 children who have no money.\u201d (Hogg followed by referring to the NRA as &#8220;child murderers.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>The fact that the NRA happens to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/cnn-goads-school-shooting-student-spokesmen-calling-nra-child-murderers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spend a pittance<\/a> in political donations compared to other interest groups notwithstanding, X&#8217;s Twitter bio reads &#8220;Abolish the Police and Prisons, unfollow me if you don\u2019t wanna hear me cursing out Nazis and the White Supremacist Powers that Be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If we follow the logic, Gonz\u00e1lez and those like her would abolish Second Amendment rights (or severely curtail them) for everyday Americans <em>while at the same time<\/em> doing away with all cops and jails. But keep in mind that Gonz\u00e1lez and crew <em>hate<\/em> <em>you<\/em> &#8212; you&#8217;re a &#8220;Nazi&#8221; and a &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; &#8212; and their hatred is <em>so<\/em> visceral that they want a disabled governor to die just because of political differences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-108031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/hanauer-tweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/hanauer-tweet.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/hanauer-tweet-370x102.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/hanauer-tweet-135x37.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; throw away our guns because folks like Gonz\u00e1lez, Hogg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Biden will protect us?? I believe the proper colloquial response here is <em>&#8220;Chee-yeah, right!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/student-reaction-to-devoss-parkland-florida-visit-showcases-millennial-self-absorption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Student reaction to DeVos\u2019s Parkland, Florida visit showcases Millennial self-absorption<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IMAGES: X Gonz\u00e1lez, Nick Hanauer\/Twitter screencaps<\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They despise you more than anything; now give up your guns and let them protect you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":775,"featured_media":108027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367],"tags":[27464,27467,12929,431,27272,809,940,45210,45209],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/X_Gonzalez-Twitter.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-s65","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108009"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108165,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108009\/revisions\/108165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}