David Hogg (far right), along with other Parkland survivors, receiving the 2018 International Children’s Peace Prize presented by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Remember the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 dead?
Remember the Never Again MSD (Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School) movement the young students organized to advocate for saner gun-control laws?
Remember March for Our Lives — also organized by Parkland shooting survivors, to promote stronger gun violence prevention measures — a movement that resulted in nearly 800,000 people converging on the nation’s capital?
Remember how the young people who organized, led and participated in those demonstrations and in other gun reform movements were called trouble makers, immature, that they didn’t “fully grasp the issues at hand because their brains have not fully developed yet”?
Remember “how the Parkland teens became villains on the right-wing Internet”?
There was, in particular, one young survivor whose “very public stance on gun control turned him into a target himself…[whose] home was swatted…[who has] been accused of being a crisis actor,” according to the Washington Post, and who became the scapegoat of numerous outlandish right-wing conspiracy theories and vile harassment, including death threats to himself and his family.
You know his face and his name. Young David Hogg became a founding member of Never Again MSD, helped organize March for Our Lives and, along with other Parkland survivors, became a national figure.
Hogg and fellow activists Jaclyn Corin, Emma Gonzalez, Cameron Kasky and Alex Wind were featured on the cover of an April 2018 edition of Time .
Just last month Hogg, Corin and Gonzales were presented the 2018 International Children’s Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. (Lead photo)
But, as previously mentioned, Hogg and the other young people also suffered harassment and scorn.
One of those mocking Hogg was right-wing darling and Fox News host Laura Ingraham. Learning that Hogg had discussed receiving rejection letters from four California colleges, Ingraham took to tweeter to claim that Hogg was whining about his rejection and linked to a conservative news website that called Hogg a “Gun Rights Provocateur.”
Today, the Washington Post reports that David Hogg is having the last laugh.
On Saturday, Hogg tweeted that he will be “attending Harvard in the fall with a planned major in Political Science.”
The Post calls Harvard “a university that accepted fewer than 5 percent of applicants last year.”
We add our “well done” to “an overwhelming sea of congratulations.”
Lead image courtesy KidsRights Foundation
