The Crisis Actor
The crisis actor is a particularly vile accusation thrown at the survivor of an event or a relative of a victim of an event. The term is loosed at the individual by a conspiracy theorist who does not believe that the event occurred. It is a relatively new term and is related to the concept of a "false flag" operation. The idea here is simple and we will use the most recent mass shooting in the United States as an example. On Valentine's day of 2018 an individual pulled a fire alarm at a school in Florida and as the students left their classrooms the individual opened up with an AR-15 style assault rifle killing 17 students. Afterward he fled and was subsequently arrested. This the most basic factual telling of the massacre itself. This event, because it involved guns, naturally caused it to be under the suspicion of right wing conspiracy theorists who have an automatic response to any event similar to this: that's it is a ploy to remove guns from the averag...