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Puppyroach on 01 April 2018
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coolbeans said:
Puppyroach said:
I don't get what the problem is? It's up to the companies to advertise or not and it's up to him if he accepts the apology or not. If followers would start to harass her in her personal life, that would be an issue but that the free market reacts this way shouldn't be an issue if you believe in the free market and consumer power. Also, she obviously "apologized" since the advertisers pulled out. That is not an actual apology, it's more of a company statement because they are loosing revenue.

I mean...sure it's up to him to accept but that doesn't mean we're not allowed to comment on how that reflects on his character; that goes especially so when people want to play mind-reader of the insulting party's apology and make even greater demands before accepting it.  Last I checked, civil discourse between adults tends to continue when the party at fault owns up to their mistake.  Or does being less than a year from legal adulthood give him the right to still act like an immature child?

In order to help you get the problem some perceive from this debacle, allow me to take a stab at it.  The issue seems to stem from the notion of making this young man--who has been through a terrible ordeal that we can all sympathize--as a prop, regardless of his poor past actions.  For 'the left' to take such umbrage to virtually everything Trump has said for the past two years to only pirouette on basic decorum of political debate, willingly abstain from correcting false info he's presented on national TV (Reliable Sources), and disregard these infantile grudges he seems to hold well...don't be surprised if people see through this shit for what it is.

Ofcourse people can comment on it, just as people can question what the issue is. I have never stated that people shouldn´t comment on it. And what does not accepting an apology have to do with being an adult? She specifically wrote that "On reflection, in the spirit of Holy Week, I apologize for any upset or hurt my tweet caused him or any of the brave victims of Parkland." - So she wouldn´t have apologized if it wasn´t some holy week? If it´s obvious to David Hogg that she wasn´t being senscere in her apology, why should he accept it? 

And this person is being made as a prop from both the right and the left - that is sadly part of the political discourse. And I would always expect more from the president of the US then from a mass shooting victim that is being attacked as part of a political game. What Laura Ingraham should have done was to debate the issue, not talk about David Hogg being a "whiner". She only lost advertisers because she was petty and attacked a victim in a petty way. People can beas upset as they want with him, but it wasn´t he who shut her up, it was the advertisers.