The admiration may not be completely mutual | Photo: YouTube
Emma Gonzalez had a pretty clever response to Kanye West praising her on Twitter.
Over the weekend, the rapper sent out two tweets about the outspoken Parkland shooting survivor.
First he posted a picture of her and called her his hero. Indeed, many people have called her a hero – she won an LGBTI award not long after the shooting.
my hero Emma Gonzalez pic.twitter.com/aSdFmraenU
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 29, 2018
Then he posted a picture of himself, along with the words: ‘Inspired by Emma.’
inspired by Emma pic.twitter.com/TiZMthLK92
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 29, 2018
A clever response
Gonzalez never responded to either of Kanye’s tweets.
However, only 15 minutes after the first tweet, Gonzalez shared an eerily similar tweet of her own.
my hero James Shaw Jr. pic.twitter.com/BRnuYEURdv
— Emma González (@Emma4Change) April 29, 2018
She tweeted: ‘my hero James Shaw Jr.’
Shaw was the man who recently disarmed a shooter at a Waffle House restaurant in Tennessee. While the shooter reloaded at the 22 April attack, Shaw tackled him.
As for Gonzalez’s tweet, she used the exact same wording as Kanye — including the extra space before the name.
How to explain Gonzalez’s response? Kanye’s recent return to Twitter has seen him posting support for Trump and other right-wing voices. Several celebrities then began unfollowing him on Twitter and criticizing his stances.