Billy Madison, in Adam Sandler's eponymous movie, is a rich kid with an utterly empty mind and childlike logic who repeats all 12 grades of primary school over 24 weeks. Because it's a Hollywood movie, Billy excels and eventually is able to take over his father's Fortune 500 hotel chain. In the real world, David Hogg is playing the Billy Madison role, and it's clear that his exposure to Harvard, rather than making him smarter in a Billy Madison–esque way, is actually making him dumber. Much dumber.

How else can one account for the tweet Hogg, a Harvard freshman, shared with the world this weekend?

This is a tweet for for the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books.



We may not know all your names but thank you. — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) January 27, 2020

A tweet like that inevitably brings to mind the perfect insult the moderator at an academic decathlon hurls at Sandler's Madison character:

Mr. Madison, what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

The sad reality, though, is that Hogg tweeted out this illiterate gibberish because it's what's being taught in academia today. We know of a student at a quality liberal arts school who was asked to write about pre-colonial North America from the perspective of race, sex, or gender identity/sexual orientation. Hogg isn't the brightest bulb in the box, but he's smart enough to absorb the utterly inane, ahistorical nonsense that's being pumped into the sponge-like brains of the students in America's "top" college and universities.

In his own way, Hogg is a victim, but that didn't prevent the blogosphere from rejoicing in his extraordinary ignorance:

This is a tweet for all those who want to intensely signal that they sympathize with all past and present gun control non-cisheteronormative unionized brown and black intersectional Native-American immigrants who support abortion. — Razor (@hale_razor) January 27, 2020

It's a national embarrassment that ABC News or the New York Times never even interviewed those Native American lesbians when they were fighting for musket control in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Criminal, even. — Shane Styles (@shaner5000) January 27, 2020

Crazy that I’m an American History major, and never knew about these herds of non binary LGBT indigenous women roaming the plains, that hated guns and “never got on the news” all these “centuries ago.” 🤔 — Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 (@iheartmindy) January 27, 2020

When you think the Village People is history and still get into Harvard. pic.twitter.com/33LYBJ2tXj — Just a Pilgrim (@don2deliver) January 27, 2020

While there's a certain mad change in running with Hogg's lunacy, a lot of people brought a dose of reality to the whole circus:

Gun control in the USA was started by the KKK and southern dems in the 1870s with the Kruikshank decision that was engineered explicitly to disarm former slaves so jim crow would be unopposed. — Styxhexenhammer666 (@Styx666Official) January 27, 2020

And here are two apropos tweets from the recent gun rights rally in Richmond. Hogg might really have learned something had he attended.