David Hogg’s Boycott of Laura Ingraham’s show is further supported by Ingraham’s 35-year history of of hate and viciousness.
As editor of The Dartmouth Review, she had a reporter go undercover at an LGBTQ meeting on Dartmouth campus and published the transcript including the attendees.[8] She was criticised for forcibly outing them to friends and family.[8] At the start of the meeting, an oath of confidentiality was read whereby participants in the meeting were assured that information from the meeting would not be made public.[8] Ingraham claimed confidentiality did not apply, because the meeting had been advertised, and defended the outing of the gay students as a "freedom of the press issue".[8]
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Jeffrey Hart, the faculty adviser for The Dartmouth Review described Ingraham as having "the most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable", claiming "she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual."[10]
Oh, but defenders might say, in 1997 she wrote an essay in The Washington Post in which she stated she changed her views on homosexuality after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity, and courage" with which her gay brother Curtis and his partner coped with AIDS.”
This is peak right wing “Ox is gored-ism,” coined by Martin Luther at the 1521 Diet of Worms: "most human affairs come down to depending upon whose ox is gored."
For the right, compassion only appears when you know someone affected:
Nancy Reagan was a "liberal" on stem cells because of her husband's Alzheimers.
Sen. Pete Domenici crusaded for federal mental health after his daughter was diagnosed as schizophrenic.
Orrin Hatch, like Nancy Reagan, carved out stem cells from his "pro-life" position when a relative was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Dick Cheney is a gay rights advocate because of his daughter Mary.
If Ingraham didn’t have a gay brother, would she ever have apologized or changed?
Not based on almost everything in her record up and including David Hogg and the Parkland students,