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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Sep 2019

      1-At least once a year, progressives require some new folk hero - preferably a child, or a grieving family member - who can be used as a front for a political argument without being subject to the regular give-and-take of criticism that comes with the territory. It's shabby.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Sep 2019

      2-Like many left-wing tactics, this is not exclusive to the Left: the populist Right is especially apt to borrow such tactics if they appear to succeed. But it's a persistent strategy on that side of the aisle.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Sep 2019

      3-As transparent as it is, the most irksome part is watching the great, gushing flows of self-righteous praise that gets heaped on these people for their unique courage & insight as if we have not all heard this script recited a dozen times before, from Cindy Sheehan to Parkland.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Sep 2019

      4-These spokespeople, being children or grief-stricken, are themselves typically sincere, if often poorly informed. Their time in the spotlight is frequently harmful to them, & they are discarded once the moment passes. If, like Sheehan, they turn on the D power structure, worse.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Sep 2019

      5-It's positively irresponsible to do this to people just to score political points. Frankly, even some of our politicians & pundits are at times ill-equipped for the national spotlight, let alone kids. Be better than this. Politics ain't beanbag. People get hurt.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Sep 2019

          6-And have the courage of your convictions. If an argument is a good one, it doesn't need to use children as human shields. It can be advanced in the open on its merits.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Sep 2019

          7-We can argue all we like, and as adults, we need not pull punches in doing so. But it's never a bad day to be a decent human being.pic.twitter.com/aeoiYqXpff

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        1. Brian Dell‏ @Brian_Dell 23 Sep 2019
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          The rebuttal to a "think of the children!" argument is actually to not think of the children, not substitute the same appeal to emotion going the other way. No need to infantilize Greta as an innocent in need of protection. She's certainly not asking for that.

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