Maybe the teenage gun control activists should have stayed in history class instead of walking out of school.
The Facebook campaign page for Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Sunday shared a meme critical of student gun control advocate Emma Gonzalez, condemning her wearing a Cuban flag patch while delivering a speech at Saturday’s March for Our Lives event in Washington, D.C.
“This is how you look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don’t speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense,” the meme read.
Representatives for King told the Washington Post that members of his campaign team were the ones to pen the Facebook post.
Brandon J. Wolf, a survivor of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, was among those who criticized King and his campaign, accusing the congressman of racial discrimination.
“Are you SERIOUSLY mocking a school shooting survivor for her ethnic identity?!” Wolf said in a comment.
He added: “When it was my community, where were you? When it was Sandy Hook? Columbine? Were you on the sideline mocking those communities too? Did you question someone identifying as a mother? Did you question whether people like me were crisis actors?”
The person managing King’s page shot back, writing that the meme wasn’t “picking” on anyone, but “calling attention to the truth.”
According to CNN, Gonzalez’s father fled to the US from his native Cuba to escape the Castro regime.
Fellow Parkland survivor David Hogg came to his schoolmate’s defense.
She's a beautiful woman of Cuban descent and we love her. You would too if you ever got the chance to meet her. We need to love each other as Americans regaurdless of our descent, ethnicity or race. #LoveTrumpsHate https://t.co/yXdm0ISc7X
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 26, 2018
Also who’s running against this guy
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 26, 2018
Hey @marcorubio @Emma4Change s family fled Cuba to escape totalitarianism and live in freedom just like your family could you please respond to @SteveKingIA
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) March 26, 2018
Other Twitter users supported King in excoriating Gonzalez.
Why is Emma Gonzalez wearing a Cuban flag during her speech? Didn’t her Cuban father leave Cuba to get away from the communist gun-grabbing regime? Does Emma want U.S. to be like Cuba? pic.twitter.com/7kaBNttr1v
— Suzanne (@MayKelly) March 25, 2018
Someone should tell Emma Gonzalez that displaying a Cuban flag on her clothing doesn’t advance her cause, because the Cuban government has murdered many more children than guns in America ever have. pic.twitter.com/yWMTt68SUV
— Alejandro Acosta (@aleaco) March 26, 2018
— Audrey Main (@mainwmn) March 25, 2018
Emma Gonzalez does not identify as an American. That explains the ?? flag and not ?? patch on her jacket.
Is she legal ? In interviews she says she is Cuban. These people are trashing our country. pic.twitter.com/js4lWfXsY2
— ? Christie ? (@ChristieBeaches) March 26, 2018
Parkland High Marcher Emma Gonzalez wearing army fatigues with a Communist Cuban flag sewn on her shoulder said welcome to the Revolution. So did Castro who murdered thousands after taking Cuban guns. https://t.co/zp7f9mqpmO
— Jack Bones (@JackBones10) March 25, 2018
Nothing like wearing a Cuban flag on your jacket to support disarming America. #EmmaGonzalez
— ??? Mark ??? (@BartenderMB) March 24, 2018
Curious as to why Emma Gonzalez would wear a Cuban flag patch, a totalitarian symbol of oppression, when speaking about making the country a safer place to live. pic.twitter.com/eVvMfEKY9g
— Politically Slanted (@slantedpolitics) March 25, 2018
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