Here's how the game they're playing with Erika works. They start with an outrageous claim or accusation that's so serious and damaging, it feels like you have no choice but to respond to it. Then they flip the burden of proof. Instead of proving the claim, they demand proof it isn't true. This is burden-shifting, but it's made worse by the fact that a lot of accusations are difficult (if not impossible) to disprove, especially when they’re about someone's motives or private behavior.
Once the accusation is out there, every possible reaction gets twisted into evidence of guilt. If you deny it, they say you’re being defensive. If you try to explain yourself, they say you’re over-explaining because you got caught. If you get angry, they say your anger proves they struck a nerve. And if you stay quiet, well . . . only the guilty have nothing to say in their own defense.
So the outrageous accusation itself never actually gets tested honestly, and it wasn't supposed to. The whole point was to make as many people as possible believe the claim must be true, no matter what is or isn't said in response to it. And it's nearly as effective as it is evil.
The only way out of the trap is to show that it's a trap, and to ridicule and reject the wicked people who tried to set it up in the first place.
Tucker: “This is well known that people are doing this.”
NYT: “Who? Who specifically?”
Tucker: “I don’t know, but they are.”
NYT: “Who’s ‘they?’”
Tucker: “I don’t know. You can say what you think you know, but it’s hard to really know.”
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Electrons have existed as long as the universe itself
And yet the word “electron” didn’t exit until 1891
Obviously, that means electrons didn’t exist until then
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