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Beware of Kafkatrapping
The Daily Bell ^ | August 14, 2014 | Wendy McElroy

Posted on 12/17/2023 6:29:59 PM PST by TBP

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To: CatHerd

I thought I identified the correct book.

Please correct me if I failed - “Inquiring minds want to know.”


21 posted on 12/17/2023 7:31:13 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: one guy in new jersey

Yes, it’s akin to murder for very good reason. When you falsely accuse someone of grave crimes, you effectively murder their good reputation in society, community, even family. And it truly is a grave sin.


22 posted on 12/17/2023 7:33:20 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Brian Griffin

The work I referenced was Franz Kafka’s “Die Verwandlung” (see link in my #12).

But your discovery of the other book was rather serendipitous, n’es’t pas? Kinda cool, really.


23 posted on 12/17/2023 7:39:13 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: TBP

if you read to the end, you’ll discover that this is a gold commercial ...


24 posted on 12/17/2023 7:43:10 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: TBP

WIKI

Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka and first published in 1915. One of Kafka’s best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. “monstrous vermin”) and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, who have offered varied interpretations. In popular culture and adaptations of the novella, the insect is commonly depicted as a cockroach.

With Gregor’s unexpected transformation, his family is deprived of financial stability. They keep Gregor locked in his room, and he begins to accept his new identity and adapt to his new body. His sister Grete is the only one willing to bring him food, which they find Gregor only likes if it is rotten.

His father, mother, and sister all get jobs and increasingly begin to neglect him, and his room begins to be used for storage. For a time, his family leaves Gregor’s door open in the evenings so he can listen to them talk to each other, but this happens less frequently once they rent a room in the apartment to three male tenants, since they are not told about Gregor. One day the charwoman, who briefly looks in on Gregor each day when she arrives and before she leaves, neglects to close his door fully. Attracted by Grete’s violin-playing in the living room, Gregor crawls out and is spotted by the unsuspecting tenants, who complain about the apartment’s unhygienic conditions and say they are leaving, will not pay anything for the time they have already stayed, and may take legal action. Grete, who has tired of taking care of Gregor and realizes the burden his existence puts on each member of the family, tells her parents they must get rid of “it” or they will all be ruined. Gregor, understanding that he is no longer wanted, laboriously makes his way back to his room and dies of starvation before sunrise. His body is discovered by the charwoman, who alerts his family and then disposes of the corpse. The relieved and optimistic father, mother, and sister all take the day off work. They travel by tram into the countryside and make plans to move to a smaller apartment to save money. During the short trip, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa realize that, despite the hardships that have brought some paleness to her face, Grete has grown up into a pretty young lady with a good figure and they think about finding her a husband.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis


25 posted on 12/17/2023 7:44:16 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

“2023...I want cheaper labor. F...
Rich globalists have long thought similarly.”

Add giving women the right to vote (empowering them), as they then entered the workforce and watered down wages.


26 posted on 12/17/2023 7:47:34 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: TBP
Andrew Breitbart had the right idea, he would look them square in the eye and say, "So?"

Just say "So?"!

27 posted on 12/17/2023 7:47:44 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: BobL
Because before women had the vote they never worked outside the home.

You are being sarcastic aren't you? Please?

28 posted on 12/17/2023 7:51:11 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: Brian Griffin

Verwandlung

change for the worse (as I understand German)

Perhaps, the leftists would like to stomp on us like we were cockroaches.


29 posted on 12/17/2023 7:53:57 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: CatHerd

Would that the accusation had form and were falsifiable (as in the case of calumny—publicly uttered falsehoods).

The more baseless and abstract, fact-free amorphous, indictments, called contumely, are really just horrid, really mindless public behavior strategically geared toward causing onlookers, disinterested third parties, even acquaintances, friends, family members to disown, turn their backs toward, reject and avoid the unfortunate target. Everyone is to drink in unadulterated negativity and contempt until the target is effectively banned from polite society.

It’s satanic.


30 posted on 12/17/2023 7:59:34 PM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

You are correct, sir. Excellent points well made.


31 posted on 12/17/2023 8:01:54 PM PST by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

“Because before women had the vote they never worked outside the home.

You are being sarcastic aren’t you? Please? “

Some did, of course, and they had the right to. But no, women generally stayed in the home. The RICH Oligarchs financed the suffragist movement for the express purpose of CHEAP LABOR (from mass entry of women into the workforce), with a secondary purpose of getting kids out of the home and into the hands of the government. They succeeded in both.

Read about it from someone who actually did the research.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC5b48oXylM


32 posted on 12/17/2023 8:08:45 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: BobL

“watered down wages”

It was more to increase government revenue [ for Democrats] (and allow for tax rate reductions [ for Republicans]).

Ah, bipartisanship!

“The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.”

— George Carlin

https://quotefancy.com/george-carlin-quotes


33 posted on 12/17/2023 8:09:02 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: TBP

The proper response to “kafkatrapping” is “I know you are, but what am I”. Worked in the playground, and still works with childish accusations like this.


34 posted on 12/17/2023 8:16:43 PM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: TBP

The best response to such an accusation is probably “Let me tell you about Jesus and what He has done for me” and launch into a witnessing conversation. The perp will probably flee in terror.

The next best response is a simple “eff off, jackwagon”, perhaps using a more forceful slur that cannot be posted here. The slur used cannot be racial, sexual, religious, etc. - that would give the perp ammunition.


35 posted on 12/17/2023 8:17:47 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

Ok, pedo can be used.


36 posted on 12/17/2023 8:43:09 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: BobL
If you were not middle class there was about a 40% chance you continued to work after you were married.

If you were middle class you probably did work before your marriage but stopped afterwards.

About 20% were categorized as "breadwinners" which meant they were sole supports of themselves and any children they may have.

If adding women to the workforce was enough to drive wages down there would have been no need to import as many immigrants as they did.

And yeah I have done the research.

The idea promoted by both liberals and conservatives that before the 1920's women did not work outside the home either full or part time is not true.

37 posted on 12/17/2023 8:45:07 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
The best response to such an accusation is probably “Let me tell you about Jesus and what He has done for me” and launch into a witnessing conversation.

I think you are on to something here. After your witness conversation, you could go on to say that it is ultimately a great honor for a Christian to be persecuted for their religion like they are obviously doing to you because of their religious bigotry. This could take their whole line of attack and turn it sideways into a competition of victimhoods.

38 posted on 12/17/2023 9:04:51 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Good to hear, might you have a link to your book, so I can check your work?

While you’re looking, here’s a link to her book, so you can do the same:
https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Feminism-Secret-History-Liberation/dp/B0C5S6JHZM


39 posted on 12/17/2023 9:08:02 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: TBP

Guess “Kafkatrapping” wouldn’t work on me; when somebody calls me a racist, homophobe/lesbophobe,feministphobe, etcetera I just look at them, smile and say DAMN RIGHT!

I am not afraid of them therefore phobe is actually the wrong description, but I do find them disgusting, perverted, repulsive, repugnant and detestable.

As to the racist part, again DAMN RIGHT, I dislike any body who doesn’t think and talk like I do.

It’s not a matter of skin color or where you come from, it’s more a matter of thinking and acting like an AMERICAN!


40 posted on 12/17/2023 10:31:30 PM PST by 5th MEB (1)
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