I’m a very logical person. Everything has to make sense to me. A has to follow B and 1 plus 1 has to equal two. Even when I’m reading works of fiction, I can’t stand it when the author makes a ridiculous point that you can’t suspend disbelief over. I recently finished a spy thriller which ended with the entire state of Israel being resettled in the Southwest United States! I thought it was ridiculous and ruined what was a decent book.
Because of that, I really can’t stand conspiracy theorists. Don’t these people possess any critical thinking skills? Their arguments make no sense. Not everything is a conspiracy. Conspiracies are incredibly hard to contain. And with the Internet, it’s virtually impossible to keep anything secret forever. San Bernardino conspiracy theories are currently popular. According to the Huffington Post, Florida Atlantic University wants to fire professor James Tracy for being a San Bernardino and Sandy Hook truther. Tracy, author of “Nobody Died at Sandy Hook,” has been accused of harassing Lenny and Veronique Pozner, parents of a child who was killed at Sandy Hook. Tracy accused the Pozners of faking their son, Noah’s life, including birthday photos and a birth certificate!
I recently left a Facebook group because a member was posting information claiming the San Bernardino terrorist attack was a hoax. I told him he was an idiot to believe that, and a conspiracy that big would be impossible to conceal. Another member said she knew the father of one of the victims and he buried his child a few days ago.
Before I left the group, I saw some more posts where the conspiracy theorist said “crisis actors” had given media interviews for the San Bernardino shooting. First of all, what the hell is a crisis actor? Can someone produce one person who lists crisis actor on their CV? Do you actually believe that somewhere in the government someone is writing invoices to crisis actors? (If you ever worked with the government you know everything has to be tracked.)
I made the mistake of clicking on a video the conspiracy nut posted which featured a conspiracy theorist mocking the family member of a victim of gun violence. Apparently, he didn’t believe her because she didn’t show enough emotion. The YouTube page also had videos saying the Paris shooting, the Sandy Hook shooting and other massacres were all hoaxes. It was quite disgusting and infuriating. How can people believe this nonsense? I guess there are a lot of mentally ill people out there.
If you want to understand the mentality of these people, consider this. Radio show host Alex Jones, the godfather of conspiracy theorists, believes the government is putting chemicals in orange juice to turn men gay.
It should also be noted that a few years ago, neo fascist Donald Trump, frontrunner in the GOP presidential primary, spent several months claiming President Barack Obama was actually born in Kenya. The sad thing is there are people who still believe this. According to a CNN/ORC poll 11 percent of people believed Obama was not born in the United States. World Net Daily, a site for featuring the most outlandish right-wing conspiracies, recently ran an article questioning the Obama’s marriage and the birth of their children. Author Bradlee Dean said he couldn’t find any record of anyone who knew the Obamas in the past, something that could have been fixed with a quick Google search.
So let’s break down the birther theory using simple logic.
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There is plenty of evidence Obama was born in America. Two birth certificates, testimony from the doctor who delivered him, newspaper records and statements from the governor of Hawaii. I don’t think even the Illuminati could orchestrate a conspiracy that wide.
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Another glaring inaccuracy about the birther conspiracy is you have to believe that Stanley Ann Dunham, a young American woman, would have opted to have a child in Kenya, a country with a rudimentary health system in the 1950s. Even today, African women have been known to fly to the West to deliver their children, because they don’t trust the health systems in their countries.
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If Obama’s parents decided to fake his birth certificate, they must have possessed a time machine, since they would have somehow known he would run for president in the future and would be quizzed about his birth records.
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Birthers have also suggested Obama’s parents faked his records, because they wanted him to have all the benefits of an American citizen. But a child born to an American citizen gets all the rights of an American citizen anyway, no matter where they are born.
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And here is the final point, which should have ended the birther conspiracy nonsense. If Obama had fraudulent birth records, don’t you think someone would have outed him in his almost 20 years of politics? If the birther conspiracy were true, he should have been disqualified from running for president in the first place and I’m sure Hillary’s campaign would have used it against him.
Like most conspiracy theories, the birther conspiracy can be disproved by logical and critical thinking. I wish conspiracy theorists realized this. I also wish they would seek psychological help instead of wasting their time making nonsensical videos and social media posts.
