Routine Shootings at US Schools and Universities Megathread.

[HVC]

And now he's calling a boycott on her 12 top advertisers

[Admiral Yi]

This activist is a kid or an adult?

[katmai]

This activist is a kid or an adult?

18 year old high school student.

[katmai]

And now he's calling a boycott on her 12 top advertisers

Hogg dismissed Ingraham's apology in an interview Thursday with The New York Times.

"She only apologized after we went after her advertisers," Hogg said. "It kind of speaks for itself. ... I'm not going to stoop to her level and go after her on a personal level. I'm going to go after her advertisers."

[Eddie Teach]

I'm not sure how he's trying to claim moral high ground while simultaneously attacking her livelihood. 

[Jacob]

I'm not sure how he's trying to claim moral high ground while simultaneously attacking her livelihood. 

It was right there in the post. He's not going to go after her personally, just after the platform she uses to go after him.

[dps]

So he's going after 3rd parties who are just trying to reach potential customers.

[Berkut]

So he's going after 3rd parties who are just trying to reach potential customers.

Is that a bad thing?

[Admiral Yi]

So he's going after 3rd parties who are just trying to reach potential customers.

He's asking them to try to reach potential customers another way.

[Berkut]

I'm not sure how he's trying to claim moral high ground while simultaneously attacking her livelihood. 

Her livelihood is propaganda and attacking children.

She isn't a professor somewhere who dared speak out against identity politics (if that was the case, Jake would be telling us its really no big deal, and studies show that most college students are ossum), she is a paid propaganda artist - her livelihood IS her speech.

I have no problem with him going after those who are hoping to make money off advertising to those who follow her. In this case, she deserves it, and in the general case, I consider that fair pool when it comes to political talking heads who make their living off advertising.

[dps]

So he's going after 3rd parties who are just trying to reach potential customers.

Is that a bad thing?

I'm not entirely sure, but I have reservations about it.  It seems like a back-door attempt to restrict free speech.  Even if the speech in this case was a classless bit of crap better suited to being said by a 3rd rate stand-up comic than to someone who claims to be a newsperson.

[Admiral Yi]

Yuge difference in my mind between actually restricting free speech and deciding you no longer want to fanance it.

[Berkut]

Yuge difference in my mind between actually restricting free speech and deciding you no longer want to fanance it.

Indeed.

She has a platform because advertisers see her as a way to get to an audience.

It is most certainly fair play to let them know that their plan is backfiring.

ADvertisers want to use celelbrity to sell products. She (and others like her) carefully manage and craft their image to make them marketable to advertisers. That is their job.

[grumbler]

Yuge difference in my mind between actually restricting free speech and deciding you no longer want to fanance it.

Quoted to preserve "fanance."  This is a cromulent word and should not be lost to editing.

[Eddie Teach]

Fair game, sure. Hardly taking the "high road". If he's successful, his boycott causes a lot more damage than a bit of name-calling.