<someone complains about constant strawman arguments toward conservatives>
<reply with a strawman argument>
Today I learned that providing direct quotes from one of the biggest names in conservatism is a "strawman argument".
I don't watch Tucker, so I searched for this clip. Not one sentence from a 7+ min segment, but the whole thing. I'm sure you'll appreciate more context behind his reasoning, even if you disagree. https://video.foxnews.com/v/6184852089001#sp=show-clips
Your quote starts about 2:57 timestamp. More context for it starts about 2:25. I'm just dumb hick right winger, but I don't see anything that suggests Tucker is trivializing the loss of life. Care to inform me what is so bad about what he said?
I personally think this whole situation is very tragic. I'll tend to agree with what Tucker said. It's first and foremost the responsibilities of the authorities to uphold law and order. When they fail to do that, you're going to see more businesses burning down, more vigilantes, more deaths. It needs to end.
See now this is an actual strawman argument. You are putting words in my mouth that I did not say in an attempt to make me seem unreasonable ("dumb hick right winger").
But sure, let me spend my time to pull some quotes for you from the video. Let's start with the first sentence:
"Last night the
chaos that began with the George Floyd protests reached it's
inevitable and bloody conclusion."
- Seeks to blame the protesters for a MAGA teen shooting them.
- Seeks to normalize/excuse the shooting as "inevitable" or required.
- Ignores entirely the caused for the renewed violence, namely that a police officer walked up behind a black man as he was getting in his car with his kids in the back, grabbed him by the back collar, and shot him seven times in the back.
<queue fear-mongering of things burning>
"Two people DIED, many of the details remain hazy."
- Again seeks to blame the deaths on the protesters, not the person responsible, especially right after that fear-mongering montage.
"Big media organizations have sought to downplay and ignore the violence."
- Blatant lie that is impossible to fact check. This is headline news everywhere. Just more standard "all news is lying to you except for Fox" propaganda.
<queue fear-mongering graphic video of one of the victims>
- Again still at no point has there been any mention that this was not done by the protesters, but by a "blue lives" counter-protester.
<finally acknowledges that this was done by a counter-protestor>
"But we
do know
why this happened because the Governor on down refused to enforce the law, they stood back and watched Kenosha burn. So are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder?"
- Again an opinion, not a fact, making it impossible to fact-check.
- Again seeks to blame other people (Governor, "on down", "looters" and "arsonists") for the actions of a MAGA teen.
- Notice how when Tucker is talking about the teen himself it's "a court of law will have to decide if this is self-defense or not" but when he's blaming the deaths on Democrats it's definitely "murder".
"How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?"
- We should be very very shocked, although he seems to be implying otherwise.
- It's not this kids job to "maintain order", even if it needs to be done, and if someone died as a result of this kid's vigilantism then he
absolutely should be convicted of murder.
- So here we've moved from giving the kid an unreasonable and enormous benefit of the doubt that he illegally crossed state lines with an illegally-possessed firearm to counter-protest with it "just in case" he needed to "defend himself", to outright admitting that the kid went looking to kill someone and that it's okay that he did because "he had to maintain order".
<queue more fear-mongering video of people peacefully walking and exercising their freedom of speech, and catching a piece of paper on fire, with what seems like one woman saying the worst things that Fox could find>
- Is that lady legitimate or a plant?
- Does it matter? Speech is free. Even if she's real she's obviously just venting, not hatching some plan to overthrow the government.
"It could have been a dozen other places in this country; the violence has been building unabated for three months now. Every day the mob becomes more radical."
- Lie, lie, and lie.
"Democratic have openly encouraged encouraged them."
- Lie. Democrats support solving the problems at the base of the protest, not "looting".
- “The needless violence won’t heal us.” -Joe Biden
<Apparently Nikki Hailey is not conservative enough for Tucker now>
<Apparently Nixon is good>
<Apparently Trump is good because he's sending the military to suppress US Citizens>
- So much for conservatives being against a tyrannical federal government, eh?
"If Federal Prosecutors had treated the organizers of BLM and Antifa the way they treated Roger Stone our cities wouldn't look like Kosovo tonight."
- More fear mongering.
- "Leaders" of "Antifa" is an oxymoron, it's not an organization. There is no Antifa mailing list or structure. There's no Antifa BBQ. "Antifa" is just what people call themselves if they think that fascism is on the rise and they oppose it.
- Fascism, like, you know, arresting the leadership of any organization that Tucker doesn't like the politics of.
- Poor old Roger Stone, how dare those mean old feds prove that he's guilty of witness tampering and lying to investigators.
Alright, I'm tired now.