David Hogg: “Black,” “LGBTQ” and “Non-binary” Women Founded Gun Control “Centuries Ago”
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Did the Russians hack David Hogg’s brain? Some observers may thus wonder after a tweet the anti-Second Amendment activist and now Harvard freshman sent on Sunday.

“This is a tweet for for [sic] 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,” wrote Hogg, 19, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland mass shooting. “We may not know all your names but thank you.”

It’s tempting to say here, “Babylon Bee or Onion, is that you?” No satirist could have made an anti-gunner look more ridiculous, and we do have to consider the remote possibility that Hogg is trolling (though he has no history whatsoever of exhibiting humor). Hogg’s comments are presented as a screen shot below, as there’s always a chance he could delete his tweet (I would).

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The nature of the Twitterati’s response, however, was plain and predictable. Here’s a sampling:

Other respondents tried to correct the record:

In reality, whether one is referring to early-A.D. Europeans (who ultimately adopted Roman military know-how), the American Indians, or some other group, man has always welcomed better weapons. And just as the Indians valued the white settlers’ rifles, in fact, so do nations such as Iran and North Korea desire Western nuclear technology today.

Moreover, the truth is precisely the opposite of Hogg “history.” “In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks — even freemen — could not own guns,” wrote columnist Ann Coulter in 2012.

Later, “Chief Justice Roger Taney’s infamous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford circularly argued that blacks could not be citizens because if they were citizens, they would have the right to own guns: ‘It would give them the full liberty,’ he said, ‘to keep and carry arms wherever they went,’” she continued.

So contrary to Master Hogg’s assertion, gun control originally was what it mainly is today: an obsession of white Democrats — such as Hogg.

Speaking of which, Democrat presidential candidate and billionaire Michael Bloomberg maintains the old tradition even more devoutly. In a 2015 speech that he tried to suppress, he actually “argued that in order to save lives, police should seize guns from male minorities between ages 15 and 25,” according to the Aspen Times. 

As for the Hogg child going hog-wild, the story speaks volumes about today’s America. Not only do we have a Harvard student — ostensibly an “elite” — tweeting a candidate for dumbest statement of the year, and not only was it “liked” by more than 3,400 other ignoramuses, but where is the Ivy League mentor who should take him aside and provide gentle correction? That is the job of educators, after all.

The sad truth, though, is that academia is the problem. It’s where the “illiterate gibberish” Hogg tweeted is taught, notes pundit Andrea Widburg. “We know of a student at a quality liberal arts school who was asked to write about pre-colonial North America from the perspective of race, sex, or gender identity/sexual orientation,” she continues. “Hogg isn’t the brightest bulb in the box, but he’s smart enough to absorb the utterly inane, ahistorical nonsense that’s being pumped into the sponge-like brains of the students in America’s ‘top’ college and universities.”

For sure, going to the average modern academic to increase your knowledge is like going to an alchemist to increase your precious metals holdings.

Just as sad, however, is that Hogg would no doubt resist correction. Like Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, he exhibits what Professor Thomas Sowell termed “arrogant ignorance.” People thus afflicted reflect the characteristic modern flaw in which, not believing in God and His Truth, they’re relativists who make everything relative to themselves. They’re “right” because their feelings and egos thus ordain, and anyone opposing their self-deified will is a devil to be relegated to (at best) an earthly hell.

This is why, ultimately, Hogg is hardly hilarious. A quotation attributed to French philosopher Voltaire warns, “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” If and when the world’s Hoggs, Thunbergs, and Ocasio-Cortezes gain enough power, their altered eyes that alter all will see those insisting on reality as purveyors of absurdity — who must be squashed.

We saw this with the Soviet Union’s pseudo-science Lysenkoism. Preaching the heritability of acquired traits (e.g., a man who loses an arm will have an armless son), it was the state’s official position till 1964, and biologists opposing it could end up in gulags or dead. We see a milder form of this today, too, with dogma dictating the reality of acquired identities. Our biological-truth tellers suffer scorn, ostracism, and sometimes career destruction for saying a man can’t become a woman.

This is why allowing lunacy’s mainstreaming is dangerous. When society falls far enough out of touch with reality, the hammer falls on the realistic.

Image of David Hogg: Screenshot from video on Wikipedia from March for Our Lives rally

Selwyn Duke (@SelwynDuke) has written for The New American for more than a decade. He has also written for The Hill, Observer, The American Conservative, WorldNetDaily, American Thinker, and many other print and online publications. In addition, he has contributed to college textbooks published by Gale-Cengage Learning, has appeared on television, and is a frequent guest on radio.