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Don't use the enemy's ammunition FOR them

Posted by Dissident on Friday, January 12 2018 at 03:38:00AM
In reply to Different approaches again posted by Hajduk on Thursday, January 11 2018 at 1:43:11PM

Why not use their terminology, then?

Because it is playing their game, and doing the equivalent of taking ammunition from them and then shooting ourselves in the face with it. It's being used by some of us with a faux sincerity that actually sounds sincere, rather than in any way ironic. It's using the ammunition in such a way that it can easily turn the fence-sitters against us.

Which again behooves me to remind you that you need to divest yourself of this fantasy world where our environment consists of ONLY a horde of virulent antis and a tiny number of MAPs. There is a much larger group of fence-sitters whom you choose to ignore simply because they rarely speak out. However, they are there, and in large numbers lurking on this and other MAP boards every single day, and their presence is of extreme importance. We need to stop pretending they aren't there and thereby inadvertently providing apparent evidence to them that the antis were right about us all along.

That way, one day, they'll find that they abused language so much that the words no longer have the meanings they looked for. That the shift they launched took its own life and went where it wanted.

Using those words ourselves, with no evident irony whatsoever, comes off very differently when used by us than when it is used by the antis. To fence-sitters, it can be readily understood that it's a bias when antis use those terms. But when we use words so bereft of any obvious irony, it takes a much more ominous demarcation.

It's the same principle by which I reclaim "Grooming".

Some words are capable of being reclaimed. But words like "rape," "abuse," etc., cannot be "reclaimed" because they always had very negative meanings, and thus cannot be purged of their horrific meaning simply due to constant use, let alone by us!

This new very problematic tendency now emerging among our community needs to be nipped in the bud quite strongly, and you can rest assured I will be doing a lot of nipping. it's seriously wrong-headed in the worst ways describable to seriously think it's remotely wise for us to begin using words like "rape" and "sexual abuse" to refer to our own desired actions. That isn't compromising the antis' misuse of these words, it's playing right into their goddamned hands! Not to mentioning scaring the hell out of the fence-sitters and likely driving them directly into the arms of our enemies. They will have a field day quote-mining this latest nonsense that you support here!






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