Originally Posted by
Dacien
I think there's a big difference between claiming there are "crisis actors", and claiming that the son of an FBI agent might not be the most impartial advocate, considering the flak the FBI is catching for letting the ball drop on "following protocol", as they put it, with regards to leads on the shooter.
Not that I advocate for either. But this would be a much different thing if Don Jr. were liking tweets about "crisis actors", let's just say. And it doesn't help that he's liking a tweet referencing an article that uses the term "deep state" so loosely. If you want to make an argument about Obama holdovers engaging in acts to stymie Trump, you'd better have some evidence, not implied statements of fact.
But I also think some of it might come from the emotional argument that gets made after these shootings. In this case, it's trotting out children to plead for action on gun control. David Hogg isn't the only one. They also had Junior Cameron Kasky on to plead along the same lines. And CNN has a huge special tomorrow night called, "Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action", with more children involved.
A few months ago, Jimmy Kimmel was the emotional argumentator in the Las Vegas shooting. It provokes a response to see the argument not being based on facts and data, but the emotional question, "Look at these innocent kids pleading for gun control. Won't you help them?"
All that said, the right should stick to debunking these emotion-based tactics (which they do very well), without resorting to accusations that can't be proven or flat-out conspiracy theories.