|
REPLY TO THREAD
|
|
Subject
|
David Hogg Tweets Bizarre Claim That ‘Indigenous LGBTQ Women’ Started Gun-Control Movement in 1800’s
|
|
User Name
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Font color:
Font:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Original Message
|
Well, that didn’t take long.
After only one semester at Harvard University, anti-gun activist David Hogg has already started making bizarre claims about race, history, and gun control. It’s not the 19-year-old’s first off-the-wall comment (far from it), but this revisionist history sounds like something that can only originate in our centers of higher learning.
In a tweet posted earlier this week, Hogg appeared to claim that the “gun violence prevention movement” was started “centuries ago” by “almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people.”
@davidhogg111
This is a tweet for for the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books.
We may not know all your names but thank you.
“I think it comes down to reckoning with our history and our history of white supremacy in the United States and the fact that we live in a post-genocidal society oftentimes that was orchestrated by the United States government,” he said.
If it isn’t already obvious, gun control didn’t originate in “non-binary” communities in the 1800’s. In fact, gun control has a long history of racial discrimination. After slavery was outlawed, many gun-control laws were written with the sole intent of restricting gun ownership for African Americans. That mindset has continued in more recent years with the prohibition of cheap firearms (e.g., “Saturday Nigh Specials”), and may-issue concealed carry permit laws that allow law enforcement to deny the right to bear arms to certain groups of people.
[link to www.washingtonexaminer.com (secure)]
|
|
Pictures (click to insert)
|
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | | Next Page >> |
|
