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7 linguistic tricks people use to deceive and manipulate you
Life Lessons ^ | No Specified | Staff

Posted on 06/17/2021 10:46:56 AM PDT by Jayster

Kafka trap The Kafka trap might also be called the SJW trap.

Author Eric Raymond coined the term Kafkatrapping in his 2010 article in which he presented a style of argument that is common today with SJW’s, but has it’s origins in The Trial a book written in 1915 by Franz Kafka.

In The Trial the protagonist is arrested and accused of serious crimes which are never specified. He receives no explanation or description of the charges, and his refusal to acknowledge that he must be guilty is what makes him guilty. The only way to stop his abuse is to admit that he is guilty.

What is the kafka trap? In the kafka trap you are accused of being a:

Racist Sexist Bigot Facist Homophobic Transphobic Islamophobic Misogynist Nazi Hitler etc. …and any attempt to argue, deny or defend yourself is seen as proof of guilt.

Yep.

Denial is proof of guilt.

You’re guilty until proven innocent.

Any accusation of guilt is all that is needed to condemn you.

Eric Raymond laid out various models of kafkatraps in his 2010 article which I’ll share here.

Note: Kafkatrapping can be used against any perceived “ist” or “ism” (racism, sexism, homophobia etc.) however I’ll simply use the word racism here in the interests of space.

Model A “Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of racism, confirms that you are guilty of racism”

Model C “Even if you do not feel yourself to be guilty of racism, you are guilty because you have benefited from the racist behavior of others in the system”

Model D “The act of demanding a definition of racism that can be consequentially checked and falsified proves you are racist”

(Excerpt) Read more at lifelessons.co ...


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KEYWORDS: fallacies; kafkatrap; racist
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1 posted on 06/17/2021 10:46:56 AM PDT by Jayster
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To: Jayster

Another great web site on this topic—Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression:

https://dcdave.com/article3/991228.html

We learned this stuff in the 1990s from the Clintons...


2 posted on 06/17/2021 10:49:54 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Jayster

The Spanish Inquisitors would be so proud................


3 posted on 06/17/2021 10:51:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Jayster

Also:

The seriousness of the charge proves your guilt


4 posted on 06/17/2021 10:51:29 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Jayster

SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police (The Laws of Social Justice Book 1)

https://www.amazon.com/SJWs-Always-Lie-Thought-Justice-ebook/dp/B014GMBUR4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ACJ4NXUNQPE9&dchild=1&keywords=social+justice+warriors+always+lie&qid=1623952334&sprefix=social+justice+wa%2Caps%2C216&sr=8-1


5 posted on 06/17/2021 10:53:00 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn."m)
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To: Jayster

ObamaCare will save the average American family $2500/yr. on premiums and costs.


6 posted on 06/17/2021 10:57:17 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Who is John Galt and is he vaccinated?)
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To: Jayster
One of the reasons that the LEFT has made 'silence' guilty. They seek to make anything other than loud positive verbal affirmation to be active violation(s). Can you say "Cultural Revolution"?

Yep, when you make history into social studies taught be committed LEFTists, this is a foreseeable outcome!

7 posted on 06/17/2021 10:58:01 AM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: Jayster
What is the kafka trap? In the kafka trap you are accused of being a:

Racist

I identify as a non-raysis being

8 posted on 06/17/2021 10:58:13 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth)
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To: SES1066

This is classic sociopath behavior—you can’t satisfy them unless you are dead.


9 posted on 06/17/2021 11:03:35 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Jayster

these linguistic “traps” are easy to avoid: simply refuse to engage with morons, ignoramuses and/or assholes ... i do that here all the time and it works extremely well ...


10 posted on 06/17/2021 11:06:28 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Jayster
Worth the time to read through. Your excerpt is the tip of the bergy bit.

"“Believe women” – or you’re a (democrat) rape apologist

11 posted on 06/17/2021 11:12:53 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: cgbg
We learned this stuff in the 1990s from the Clintons...

I learned it in the early 70's in the U.S. Army race relations classes when we were all told we were racist, we just didn't know it yet. Headquarters bulletin boards all had the "CDR's" policy which had the "real or percieved" accusation warnings in it.

12 posted on 06/17/2021 11:14:25 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BipolarBob

And Andy Griffith was on TV telling seniors to buy into those lies, too

I just shook my head


13 posted on 06/17/2021 11:16:08 AM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord and Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: Jayster

There’s an old old story about Lyndon Johnson in his early days running for the House of Representatives. He told an aide he wanted to get word out that his opponent was a pig f— er. His aides were very upset. They said “you can’t say that, that’s not true”.

LBJ said “I know it’s not true, I just wanna hear him deny it.”


14 posted on 06/17/2021 11:16:10 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I love my country. It’s my government that I hate.)
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Bookmark


15 posted on 06/17/2021 11:22:53 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Jayster

bookmark


16 posted on 06/17/2021 11:23:30 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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I have just stopped bothering to deny being a racisss.

Just say, so what? Don’t you like it?


17 posted on 06/17/2021 11:24:58 AM PDT by doorgunner69 ("Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.." -Joseph Stalin)
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To: PIF

“The seriousness of the charge proves your guilt“

Only for conservatives .
If a liberal the more seriousness the charge just shows how desperate a conservative is to destroy the liberal .


18 posted on 06/17/2021 11:27:04 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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“You’re white.”

And my favorite are the non-apology apologies. Like the anti-semites in the democrat party.

“I would like to apologize to those hook nose sheckel hording Jews for being being all about the Benjamins.”


19 posted on 06/17/2021 11:27:26 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Jayster

The old “have you stopped beating your wife” false premise trick.


20 posted on 06/17/2021 11:39:57 AM PDT by Fungi
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