Posted on 08/20/2023 3:17:33 PM PDT by TBP
Republicans are masters of verbal jiu-jitsu. It’s a form of linguistic combat in which the practitioner takes a political phrase or concept popularized by their opponent and gradually turns into an unusable slur. Like the Japanese martial art known as jiu-jitsu, its devotees avoid taking opposing arguments head on and instead redirect their opponents’ momentum to beat them.
If this sounds abstract, consider the evolution of “ woke.” The word is defined as being “actively aware of social injustice.” But it has been transformed into a contemporary scourge, one that a politician compared to a “virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down.”
Mention almost any touchstone phrase adopted by the left in recent years — “critical race theory,” “diversity,” “global warming,” even the word “liberal” itself — and it has been redefined or tarnished by conservatives.
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Absolutely!
Bad, bad, bad conservatives!
Stop using our catchphrases, you big meanies!
LOL
It wouldn’t sting as much if the wokey dokes weren’t such self-righteous prigs.
To piss off a conservative, tell a lie.
To piss off a liberal, tell the truth!
It wouldn’t be so easy if progressives did not have unbelievably stupid ideas and then name them.
When I use the term “woke”, I mean it exactly the way progressives mean it — no jujitsu there. The problem is that what they mean is laughably ridiculous and evil.
I agree with this as an example.
Is “person of color” still the latest correct term?
If it ticks off the left, it’s the right thing to do.
My life goal, as I get older and wiser, is to do everything in my power to make life as uncomfortable as I can for the enemies of our freedom, the democRATS and their flock of idiots.
And that includes using their own words against them.
***What’s wrong with someone fighting on behalf of the poor and exploited?***
Nothing is wrong with that, it’s just that we define “poor and exploited” differently than they do.
For example, I think that children who are being groomed by their teachers about trans-ideology are the ones who are being exploited, but the left think it’s the trans teachers who are exploited.
I think that children who are sex-trafficked are the exploited, but they think I should care about the perverts and pedophiles who are exploiting these children.
The poor are those of us for whom Joe Burden and his horrible administration are screwing royally, in every which way. The left doesn’t care about the real poor. If they did, their behaviors and “programs” would be very different.
Let me check my weekly “I’m offended!” update...
FWIU, aikido developed from aiki-jujutsu.
Same here.
Observator ~ Wrong! That is Aikido.
Oh? Then what's jiu-jitsu? The Israeli martial art?
I know that's actually Krav Maga...
Hapkido is Korean, but the hanja (Chinese characters) for it (合氣道) do spell “aikido” in Japanese.
The proper term is “illegal alien”, not “illegal immigrant”.
Yes, although one could argue for “criminal alien”, as their entering the country was a criminal act...
The new definition is 'Go WOKE - Go BROKE... catchy little short cut...
Every leftist argument seems to eventually boil down to "I know you are but what am I?"
I have a friend, who is actually a strong conservative, but voted Democrat for several years because a regional Republican Party Chairman crook screwed him over personally.
In one of our conversations over who to vote for, he accused me of using ‘Verbal Jiu-Jitsu’ on him.
I said: “No; I’m slapping you upside the head with a 2X4 of reality.”
they simply can’t stand that we know what they actually mean when they use these made-up words and phrases.
Still haven’t won back “gay”.
Like “Far Right” (I’ve been called that), versus the apparently non-existent “Far Left”.
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