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  • 7 linguistic tricks people use to deceive and manipulate you

    06/17/2021 10:46:56 AM PDT · by Jayster · 36 replies
    Life Lessons ^ | No Specified | Staff
    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...
  • Kafkatrapping

    08/06/2010 9:32:10 AM PDT · by MirrorField · 5 replies
    Armed and Dangerous ^ | 7/18/2010 | Eric S. Raymond
    Good causes sometimes have bad consequences. Blacks, women, and other historical out-groups were right to demand equality before the law and the full respect and liberties due to any member of our civilization; but the tactics they used to “raise consciousness” have sometimes veered into the creepy and pathological, borrowing the least sane features of religious evangelism. One very notable pathology is a form of argument that, reduced to essence, runs like this: “Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…} confirms that you are guilty of {sin,racism,sexism, homophobia,oppression…}.” I’ve been presented with enough instances of this...