Back in the days before every white gentile went into automatic fetal position, their reaction was passive-aggression.
A reporter demanded to know if the country club John Kennedy belonged to barred Jews. His reply was, “Hell, they don’t even let in CATHOLICS.”
Barry said he belonged to a country club, but they only let him play nine holes because he was half Jewish.
Goldwater said he was sick and tired of being saying he waffled on integration:
“If someone asks me about segregation, I look them straight in the eye and say: ‘Where are you FROM?’”
They looked up Wallace’s records from his combat days and found that he had been treated for extreme stress. Was he able to take on the responsibility of being president?
Wallace answered, “After the treatment psychiatrists approve me to go back to the war.”
He added, “I have papers that say I’M sane. What have YOU got?”
We are actually getting out there and USING the Mantra. I can now use your examples of the results. One has to do with this passive-aggressive method. Most of the “replies” to the Mantra are simply pointing out that the responder is for Love and Brotherhood and we are against it.
An old anti-Communist told us at the Republican Leadership Training Convention in 1962 that his opponents in debate would point out that Communism was for Equality, Brotherhood, Fairness and so forth. How could he be against this Idealism?
He responded, “You remind me of a fish swimming along who sees a worm a fisherman is using as bait. The fish says to himself, That is good food, good protein, and it will taste good. Why shouldn’t I eat it?”
He then said, “The problem with the worm is the same problem you don’t see in Communism:
“There’s a HOOK in it!”
You can USE this.
And while we are in practical debate mode, let me remind you of Pain’s absolutely brilliant method for introducing the Mantra:
“Do you want to hear my Conspiracy Theory?”
People will.
In a REAL discussion that is pure gold! You get in the Mantra as they are waiting for the joke!
Passive-aggressive strategy again. There’s nothing like it.
#1 by Simmons on 02/26/2010 - 11:38 am
You won’t find a bigger proponent of PA methodology than me, but it has its limitations too numerous to list.
What we can do from now on is personalize the Mantra as I showed by example in GCIII just a minute ago.
I think that example is aggression and dominance starting to rear up, and what I think is a natural progression.
That beats a Tea Party type squealing, “I’m not a racist.”
#2 by Dave on 02/26/2010 - 1:40 pm
When you are at an impasse the superior force prevails.
And when humor is genuinely funny, you are definitely in possession of a superior force.
The “superior force” rule is why the blogosphere is so deadly. Political Correctness no longer has the ability to rig the forum in its favor.
This is driving the witch doctors crazy.
#3 by Truck Roy on 02/26/2010 - 6:18 pm
Good post, Dave.
Political Correctness is funny to just everyone except its practitioners.
Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Foxworthy have helped White folks morale as much as anyone else in the last 10 years.
#4 by Epiphany on 02/27/2010 - 7:32 am
FEMINISM! I find it most sad how Feminism, and in particular Radical Feminism, has poisoned the minds of most women against men.