This Weasel Tactic From the Left Needs To Be Called Out, and Fauci Needs To Be the First Example – Opinion

There’s a tactic being utilized by the left quite often and I think it’s time it’s highlighted as its abuse is not only a bad way of avoiding taking responsibility for hypocrisy, lies, or trouble, but it’s also dangerous to society overall.

While Dr. Anthony Fauci was being asked for confessions, he used this tactic. Fauci instead of acknowledging and addressing the unpleasant facts presented by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul in this case, Fauci starts to distract attention by declaring that Paul is making it more dangerous and violent.

Dr. Fauci asks for time to listen to remarks at his office. @RandPaul for criticizing him w/o “a shred of evidence” and directly blames those who’ve disagreed w/him for the death threats he’s received & messages to family members.

Paul says he is doing this “for political purposes.” pic.twitter.com/AzF8IsjRit

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) January 11, 2022

It is easy to misdirect and accuse.

The simple fact is that Fauci knows he’s cornered and doesn’t have a way out. He has nothing to counter Paul and the truths he’s espousing about Fauci, including his involvement in the creation of COVID-19 and his tyrannical treatment of anyone who remotely troubles him.

(UPDATE – US Military Report states COVID-19 has been created by a US funded EcoHealth Alliance program at Wuhan Institute of Virology

His only tactic now is to attack Paul’s character and methods. Fauci is given a couple of opportunities to do this.

For one, it paints him as a victim when he’s the obvious offender overall. The friendly left-wing media will zero in on Fauci’s claims of death threats, taking him out of the hot seat and rewarding him with sympathy from the general public. It’s a way of weaseling out of having to give hard answers and damning explanations.

The film also makes Paul look like a villain and makes Fauci appear as if he is an irresponsible bandleader, laying the ground for violence. He suddenly finds his hard questions to be evil instead of part and parcel of his job. He starts to see evil, and his most important and essential questions are now avenues for evil.

Suddenly the conversation isn’t about Fauci’s shadowy dealings, irresponsible behavior, and tyrannical methods of halting conversation. Now it’s about Paul putting the good doctor in danger for going after him so hard.

It’s a tactic that has become very common from leftist figures and can come in various forms. Angry parents show up at school board meetings, confronting corrupt officials for introducing homosexuality, sex, and more to their children and suddenly the school board members are claiming they’re unsafe. Leftists at the top put the FBI in charge of the case, giving media all the ammunition it needed to make this a major story. Suddenly it’s less about the legitimate anger from the parents and obvious wrongdoing of the school board members, and it’s now about the “violence” and “instability” of the parents who are victimizing innocent educators.

Sarah Jeong, a New York Times journalist was recently criticized for her absurd and offensive take on inflation’s effects on the wealthy versus the poor. She distracted from her inept tweet by declaring that she has been threatened with death because everyone was after her. Then, she shielded her tweets to make her the victim and claimed the ultimate say in the matter.

It’s a very common tactic and it’s hardly a new one either. This tactic has been around for years.

The social justice movement was suddenly stopped in its tracks by gamers back in 2015. This resulted in “GamerGate” a cultural war between everyday gamers and content creators and media figures, activists, and even politicians.

The method of debate from these social justice advocates was simple…don’t debate. Don’t focus on the argument, instead make the victim.

Instead of arguing the facts, people on the side of woke culture would attack the character of those participating in the GamerGate movement by proclaiming that they’re dangerous hooligans who are racist and sexist to boot. The media would tell them about an avalanche of threats and violence.

They were threatened with death. I don’t doubt it, but I also don’t believe they were as numerous or as serious as they claimed. Brianna Wu, who is a transgender-developer, was one of the advocates for social justice. He claimed that death threats had become so serious that he was forced from his home to hide, but every media outlet showed him there.

GamerGate, to be fair was decentralized and had no leader. It also featured a wide range of ideologies and opinions. It’s likely that death threats did happen, but when you’re a vocal figure on the internet, death threats are going to happen. I’ve gotten a few myself. It’s what happens when you give people anonymity and the safety to say horrible things without consequence to boot. Most of these threats can be ignored.

Herein lies the problem. There will be death threats. If you stick around on the internet for long enough, it’s likely you’ll get one yourself in some form or fashion. What we can’t allow, is for these people to use these threats (if they are happening) from taking the focus off of the issue at hand. Fauci is going to have a lot of questions and needs to be answered. He can’t be allowed to weasel his way out of the hot seat by proclaiming he’s the victim of threats. It not only becomes a barrier to real justice and answers, but our society takes these claims far less seriously.

Fauci is very well-known. He’s gonna get threats. For ages people in the public sector have faced threats and still did their jobs. Case in point, Case in point, Rand Paul’s been shot at and beaten up, as well as nearly mobbed by an angry crowd, and yet he’s still doing his job at great peril to himself. This is what he chose, and how he handles the consequences.

This isn’t to say death threats should suddenly be ignored, but they shouldn’t become the central focus. Face the consequences if your actions are not right. Painting oneself as a victim when they’re the offender doesn’t make the offenses go away, especially when the offense is being part of unleashing a virus that destroyed billions of lives around the world.