New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 60
Virtually all Woke activism has the goal of nullifying its target (German: aufheben). What that means is putting the target in a position where he has to go along with Woke standards or be unable to productively resist against them. At best, a nullified target is irrelevant to the cause. Nothing they do makes progress because they’re not regarded as a credible source. For instance, maybe they’re “deplorables.” At worst, a nullified target harms the cause against Woke Marxism by resisting it. For example, men who stand up against it are branded toxic and “part of the problem.” In this episode of New Discourses Bullets, host James Lindsay dives into the concept of political warfare nullification. Join him to understand it and learn to resist it.
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Thank you for this James. It is helpful to learn the concept of “nullification.” Just as naming one’s negative feelings becomes the key to gaining control over them and containing the people that can manipulate you with them (thus escaping depression), learning to name these political weapons is vital to gaining a sense of control over them. This allows one to have a sense of control over the larger psychological reality that we are enduring. This culture war has been brutal and there are few places to escape into. (Cultural Christianity was doing a lot of lifting in this society.)
Really brilliant presentation. These woke peeps are truly lost and have their heads right up the dark tunnel. This was really useful to answer to the left.
Four and a half minutes, and no sound. A picture of a bullet. Five bullet points. No more
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I am familiar with this concept. My teacher informed me of it.
It is a strategy of the perverse, the covertly hostile.
It is most often used in the form of ad hominem attacks. And the other strategy is of course pretending that something or someone does not exist.
The action of putting someone in a “nullified category” used to be less effective than it is today. But my group was one that was put through this. What is YOUR reaction to the word “Scientologist?” Do you actually know what it means?
commenter wrote: “What is YOUR reaction to the word ‘Scientologist?'”
My reaction to the word “Scientologist” is best represented by a line from the film ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ when the Insane Asylum nurse, observing Blanche DuBois writhing on the floor in a dissociative fugue state, says to the psychiatrist with her, “These fingernails have to be trimmed. Jacket, Doctor?”