[jiggyboy]

Note that he called this seven years ago -- and we see this every day. It really is one of the first rhetorical punches these days after "racism!" (which is being replaced by similarly overused squeals of "white supremacy!) from any leftist.

The specificity that you are guilty of a "crime" and that you have no way out is indeed straight-up Kafka. But its mechanism is the same inarguable contradiction that defines the classic "Catch-22", where asking for a sanity test, Mi>ipso facto, means you are not insane. The "kafkatrap" "logic" is that declaring that something doesn't apply to you is proof that it does.

[raybbr]

[jiggyboy]

I was reminded of this article the other day when I saw this iowahawk tweet:

“why are you lying in the street?”
“to protest genocide.”
“Okay good luck.”
“why are NOT lying in the street?”
“I uh...”
“YOU LOVE GENOCIDE”

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/913025232746754049

That is an example of the False Dilemma, not a “kafkatrap”, but both of these tricks are among leftists’ favorite ways these days to try to shut you down. Be prepared.

[paint_your_wagon]

In a similar type of story, “Invitation to a Beheading”, by Nabokov the protagonist is accused of Gnostical Turpitude.

[ClearCase_guy]

The aim of the kafkatrap is to produce a kind of free-floating guilt in the subject, a conviction of sinfulness that can be manipulated by the operator to make the subject say and do things that are convenient to the operator’s personal, political, or religious goals. Ideally, the subject will then internalize these demands, and then become complicit in the kafkatrapping of others.

Ayn Rand called it "The Sanction of the Victim". You are supposed to approve of (and help) the people who are destroying you.

[Freee-dame]

. The "kafkatrap" "logic" is that declaring that something doesn't apply to you is proof that it does.

excellent article .... We have liberal privilege in the USA, not white privilege.

[BillyBonebrake]

At the extreme, such causes frequently become epistemically closed, with a jargon and discourse so tightly wrapped around the logical fallacies in the kafkatraps that their doctrine is largely unintelligible to outsiders

Tucker Carlson had a student on from Denison University last night. He pretty much embodied this extreme. Many college students are coached into these kinds of rhetorical deployments, and Tucker was totally on to him.

[JimSEA]

Timely post.

[GOPJ]

Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” - LOL - it really does fit the liberal mindset... Amazing.

[Kommodor]

Ping for later reading...