Headline: A fake photo of Emma González went viral on the far right, where Parkland teens are villains

From the CIA WaPo:

Having teenagers act as figureheads for a movement has a certain quality that has not gone unnoticed in the wake of the March for Our Lives rally on Saturday.

Yeah it does have a certain quality:

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Judge too harshly, and you are attacking a kid who has balanced trauma with homework. Amplifying students such as Emma González has injected optimism among liberal activists in the grinding debate about the role of guns in society.
González, 18, has been at the flash point of this dynamic, appearing in newspapers, on magazine covers and in a prominent spot at the anchor rally in Washington, where her speech, which included a prolonged silence, lasted as long as the six minutes it took a gunman at her high school in Parkland, Fla., to kill 17 people on Valentine’s Day.

"Amplifying" that's an interesting verb, who doing the amplifying, who has the amplifier? How do they decide who to amplify? Six minutes, I had been wondering about that, the bare minimum to be able to serve in the militia was to be able to get three rounds off per minute, someone who is good can get 6, using a flintlock rifle or musket. so in 6 minutes almost anyone can get 18 rounds off with a single shot flintlock.

Gun-control advocates have held up González as a figurehead of the movement, splashing her trademark shaved head on T-shirts and viral images.

That's funny, too bad she didn't actually trademark that or they might have to pay her to use those images, I guess she works for free. But of course these kids are not working for free, they are working for attention. The day after the shooting in her first speech she mentioned that they had Demi Lavato call her. And of course David Hogg can't shut up about how many new twitter followers he is getting from this.

Then, there is another viewpoint of her activism.
A doctored animation of González tearing the U.S. Constitution in half circulated on social media during the rally, after it was lifted from a Teen Vogue story about teenage activists. In the real image, González is ripping apart a gun-range target.

That's funny, obviously everyone knew that it was a Photoshop but it is upsetting the WaPo set because she does want to really tear up our constitution, the kernel of truth there hurts. Just like anyone with any sense can see that she is just a puppet of the Bloomberg and Soros groups.

The doctored image mushrooming across social media appeared to confirm the belief among Second Amendment absolutists that calls for stricter gun-control measures are sacrosanct, destroying the very foundation of the United States. The animation bounced around conservative Twitter before it received a signal boost Saturday from actor Adam Baldwin.

Pay attention now: The title said "far right" and then they said Adam Baldwin was the one who popularized this, now Adam Baldwin is the "far right"! The idea here is to divide people and to claim that anyone questioning this children's crusade is way outside of what is acceptable or mainstream, but then they say Adam Baldwin is the far right!

He tweeted to a quarter of a million followers with a hashtag reading “#Vorwärts!,” the German word for “forward” and an apparent reference to the Hitler Youth, whose march song included the word.

Gab, the Twitter-like social network that is a popular refuge for the alt-right, tweeted the animation on Saturday to more than 100,000 followers, then hours later asserted it was “satire.” It racked up more than 1,200 retweets. The still images, looking more sophisticated than the glitchy animation, went further, appearing to be taken as legitimate by some conservative-minded Twitter users.

I don't really understand this, is Gab a separate site from twitter or did gab tweet something on twitter? Gosh why would the "alt-right", folks like Baldwin I suppose, need an refuge? Oh right, because of the shadow bans on twitter for conservatives.

The pushback seems to have gained more traction than the original images, although that means the original images are also spread wider. Donald Moynihan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, debunked the altered image, saying in a tweet: “Just a sample of what NRA supporters are doing to teenagers who survived a massacre (real picture on the right),” referencing a user named “Linda NRA Supporter” who posted the photo and whose account has since been suspended. It garnered more than 65,000 retweets.

Oh that's why people need an alternative to twitter, the fact they suspend people who post funny pictures contrary to the progressive agenda. He debunked a funny meme? Is there any reason to believe it was ever bunked?

Moynihan’s tweet keyed on an idea: Public moments by the Parkland students are being scrutinized and stretched to either bolster or tear down arguments on social media, built on the traditional debates made around the dinner table.
Generally, one form of criticism of González and fellow students such as David Hogg, 17, has been their ages. They are too naive and young to grasp the extent of how money, politics and policy intersect, the argument goes. It was cemented in the right’s criticism of Hogg’s insistence that clear backpacks would infringe on civil rights.

Well this is bullshit right? No one criticizes their ages, they criticize their ignorance. The argument is not that they are too young and naïve, the argument is that they were too brainwashed by their teacher.

Hogg's criticism of clear backpacks as an infringement of civil rights does illustrate how ignorant he is, perfectly, so why would only "the right' criticize that? Why would "the left" which is apparently the perspective of this author try to dismiss those arguments when they are so plain and clear?

The online effort to defuse Hogg has paid off. The first “top news” video that appears in a YouTube search for “David Hogg” is a takedown from conservative outlet the Blaze. “It’s hard to not just go after this kid,” host Pat Gray said in the video published Saturday, describing Hogg.

That's true, who would not go after an ignorant fascist? "Defuse" is another interesting verb, is Hogg a bomb? Are they trying to "defuse" him or to expose him? How is it a "takedown" exactly? Funny how they provide no details.

Other elements of González have been used in an attempt to discredit her, online and off.
For instance, some in conservative circles have circulated images calling attention to a Cuban flag sewn to her jacket.
“Emma Gonzales, wearing the flag of an authoritarian communist nation. Makes sense, they both hate an armed citizenry,” one meme shared on Reddit’s conservative page r/TheDonald. It was shared on social media through variations of the theme, including one by conservative commentator Andrew Wilkow. González’s father migrated from Cuba to the United States.

LOL how dare they draw attention to her wearing a symbol of communism? How many people did the Cuban government kill and allow to starve after they implemented strict civilian gun control laws?

A self-identified conservative Parkland student also has been buttressed by the right, which thinks he identifies with its politics — a de facto foil to his classmates. Kyle Kashuv, 16, visited President Trump and five Republican U.S. senators just three weeks after the killings to offer alternatives in the debate.

So let me get this correct, "the right" "thinks", and somehow this WaPo author has done some sort of Vulcan mind-meld with this "the right" and determined what "it" thinks! And of course he does not really identify with it's politics it just thinks he does.

“The initial movement, in its purest form, was amazing. It got corrupted because now it’s represented as anti-gun and anti-NRA. ‘Boycott this, boycott that.’ It’s detracting from the actual discussions,” Kashuv told The Post’s Dan Zak about the work of his classmates.
Since then, Kashuv has been an occasional guest on Fox News Channel, sometimes calling for middle ground with fellow classmates and among those who disagree in the debate. Kashuv has echoed critics on the right that a focus on law-enforcement failures, not gun laws, is the way forward.

So let me get this right, the police failed 45 times and the FBI failed a number of times to do their job and stop Cruz and only "critics on the right" think that is a problem? Why can't any of those on the left acknowledge that? Or right because they don't give a shit about what actually happened or what might actually prevent it, they just want gun bans.

But he has also targeted his classmates on the conservative media circuit.
Hogg’s comments at the rally were “egregious and inflammatory,” Kashuv said on Fox News on Saturday, and he has criticized Hogg numerous times on Twitter. On Sunday, Kashuv challenged classmate Cameron Kasky to a debate. His argument has been bolstered by the NRA, which has published videos decrying Hogg’s use of explicit language and suggesting his activist peers would be unknown if their classmates were still alive, saved by a gun-carrying officer.
Conservatives, who have often asserted that high school students have limited understanding and legitimacy in the gun debate, have taken a shining to the Parkland student.

Again this is bullshit, they pretend that the argument is that high school students are stupid when the actual argument is that anti gun high school students, like all anti gun folks, are ignorant. I like how turnabout is being described as not being fair play.

“You will include Kyle Kashuv in your story, yes?” Baldwin asked The Post in a direct message on Twitter.
Abby Ohlheiser contributed to this report.

Yeah they will include him, and then try to portray him as a puppet, while claiming their puppets are not puppets!

Are useful idiots opposing civil rights an enemy to the "far right" or anyone who enjoys civil rights?

Are you on the far right, if you support the second amendment?

Do only "absolutists" see through this propaganda effort using children?

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