The National Review has now weighed into the conservative argument over whether the teenage survivors of the nation's latest school shooting should shut up and just how much they should shut up.
Because all modern conservatives are conspiracy theorists—it has become the central feature of the movement, at a time when things like morality and ethics and email management protocols have been rendered fully transactional, to be traded away the first time a president needs to dodge responsibility for porn star sex or a candidate for past child molestation or an entire administration's blatant disregard for ethics laws that were sacrosanct up until the point Any Republican won, the National Review take is, of course, that the student survivors of the Parkland shooting are merely pawns of evil leftist adults.
Leftists are parading traumatized teens to make an emotional plea about gun control. But we shouldn’t let young people make policy.
The extended version presented is that the left outrageously wants teenagers to be able to choose gender transition surgery but doesn't want them to be able to purchase guns, and how hypocritical is that, but the truth is that we shouldn't be listening to the opinions of young shooting survivors because they're young and emotional and "innocent" so why the hell are they still talking and why are news networks showing it.
Children and teenagers are not fully rational actors. They’re not capable of exercising supreme responsibilities. And we shouldn’t be treating innocence as a political asset used to push the agenda of more sophisticated players.
Now, despite how this looks, this is actually a deeply funny conservative take, if you are the sort of person who no longer presumes any current conservative thinker in the marketplace today has any intention of making a sincere argument. And the reason this is deeply, deeply, deeply funny is because this National Review piece was written by ... Ben Shapiro.
