“Conspiracy theorist” has become just another dog whistle in the leftist toolbox, right alongside “racist”, “white supremacist”, “Nazi” and “colonial”. Each gets trotted out as required in order to derail any attempt to question the narrative.
And the alt-right trots out dog whistle terms from their toolbox, like communist, rioter, social justice warrior, etc. as derogatory terms to derail any attempt to question their narrative.
The thing is that when someone actually suggests that the discovery of a previously unknown and unmarked burial ground containing the remains of hundreds of children is a government plot, what else can you call it but a nut-bar conspiracy theory?
Any rational person would.
And there ARE very much groups that abound who make no bones about their "white supremacist" or "white nationalist" beliefs or their "neo-nazi" affiliation.
Nobody needs to call them that. They do it themselves, and in so doing, admit that they are "racist".
So, I guess that these are dog whistle terms from their own toolbox.
