{"id":11596,"date":"2013-11-07T07:48:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11596"},"modified":"2013-11-07T07:48:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:48:44","slug":"ten-new-rules-for-radicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11596","title":{"rendered":"Ten new rules for radicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"alinsky\"<\/a>by Gavin McInnes<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The roots of the shrieking left culture go back to the Frankfurt School but really got momentum from college professors indoctrinated by manifestos such as Saul Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals<\/em>: A liberal rant that is either a blog post or a social-media crusade or a Wikipedia edit meant to humiliate their opponent.<\/p>\n

This is so typical of them. By \u201cthem\u201d I never mean educated alpha males prepared to give rational arguments. I mean the churlish left\u2019s frustrated beta males, bored girls, and bullied gays hell-bent on revenge.<\/p>\n

One thing you\u2019ll notice about ridiculous rants by “them”, the radicals, is that they all look the same.<\/p>\n

1. SPELL YOUR ENEMIES\u2019 NAMES WRONG
\nOxford\u2019s Writing and Style Guide makes it clear: \u201cGreat care should ALWAYS be taken to spell the names of people and companies correctly,\u201d but leftist smears often spell the name wrong.<\/p>\n

2. PRETEND THAT LOGICAL FALLACIES CONSTITUTE AN ARGUMENT
\nIn high school we learned about straw-man arguments, ad-hominem attacks, and guilt by association, but today\u2019s leftist bloggers were apparently playing hooky that day. For example, anything remotely non-liberal about race instantly becomes, \u201cWhy are you so scared of brown people?\u201d and the argument becomes all about a petrified scarecrow that isn\u2019t even there. Whenever a male says something construed as too macho, we hear ad-hominem attacks about his tiny penis. And the SPLC wrote the book on guilt by association. The \u201cFar Right Embraces Book That Rewrites Matthew Shepard Case,\u201d said a recent headline. If homophobes like his book, then gay author Stephen Jiminez must be a homophobe. If Hitler used toilet paper, we must all be Nazis.<\/p>\n

3. MAKE YOUR HEADLINES HYPERBOLIC AND PATENTLY FALSE
\nIt\u2019s easier to argue against a fictional character. What used to be a dirty trick reserved for the National Enquirer is now commonplace among the Gawker types. \u201cRacist,\u201d \u201cHomophobic,\u201d and \u201cSexist\u201d are tossed into the headline with no qualification whatsoever, and in an era where people rarely make it past the first couple sentences, that\u2019s what sticks.<\/p>\n

4. USE FIGHTIN\u2019 WORDS SUCH AS \u201cTAKEDOWN\u201d
\nThe more beta the male, the more they love using boxing terms. It reminds me of the way women in the fashion industry are always using Ebonics ironically with lines such as, \u201cI swear if she doesn\u2019t get me those samples by five, I\u2019m going to bust a cap in her ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. NEVER DISCUSS THE FACTS
\nWhat used to be two sane adults comparing data has become nothing but catty insults. As David Derby says in his book Snark: It\u2019s Mean, It\u2019s Personal, and It\u2019s Ruining Our Conversation, it\u2019s \u201cindolent parasitism as a work ethos.\u201d These people are so used to preaching to the converted, simply repeating what their enemy said while dripping with incredulity is enough. If you were to say, \u201cThere are more black neurosurgeons on TV than in real life,\u201d their response would be simply to repeat that quote and scream, \u201cCan you believe this shit!?\u201d Instead of refuting this statement with actual numbers we\u2019d hear about what a racist asshole this person is, and his statement would be twisted into \u201cBigot Says Blacks are too Stupid to Become Doctors.\u201d The next time you hear about this guy, it will be from the person next to you at a restaurant whispering, \u201cThat\u2019s the guy who said he\u2019d rather die than let a black surgeon operate on him.\u201d In a recent critique the author improves her argument with a GIF saying, \u201cAre you fucking kidding me?\u201d As Alinsky points out in Rule #5, \u201cRidicule is man\u2019s most potent weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n

6. BE OBSESSED WITH RAPE
\nThe left couldn\u2019t wait to make jokes about white males being raped in prison. It\u2019s ironic because if you include prison, more men get raped than women so if anyone should be telling people they can\u2019t joke about it, it\u2019s men.<\/p>\n

7. SAY THE WORD \u201cEVIL\u201d A LOT
\n\u201cThey think we\u2019re evil. We just think they\u2019re wrong\u201d is a quote often misattributed to Dennis Prager, but it actually comes from Charles Krauthammer. It is a great summation of the Smurf cartoon world the liberal arts have imbued in their graduates. In school they were taught an imaginary universe where innocent peasants pleaded for porridge while corrupt kings laughed in their faces. When the real world offered nuance instead, they just fabricated the bad guys and screamed \u201cevil\u201d at every Gargamel who disagreed. This is classic Alinsky as referenced in Rules for Radicals #12: \u201cPick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)\u201d<\/p>\n

8. DISH IT OUT, BUT DON\u2019T TAKE IT
\nPoliticians have no problem making big decisions unless it starts to affect their own lives. Schwarzenegger was one of the few to stand up to the unions until they started to protest outside of his house, whereby he immediately capitulated. These bloggers are the same. They are so unaware, they will Tweet to their 34 followers how irrelevant Michelle Malkin is. They will accuse an author of cowardice while using a fake name. They will publish gun owners\u2019 home addresses without realizing they left themselves open to retribution. Point them out. Publish their picture. Confront them in public and you\u2019ll never hear from them again.<\/p>\n

9. BE COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF NUMBERS
\nLiberal bloggers have no problem recounting a story about a hard-working immigrant family who risked life and limb to swim to America in the dead of night. I\u2019ve yet to meet one who knows how many illegals we have in this country. They can tell you about the terrible wages teachers make, but when you ask them how much America spends on education per student, they know it\u2019s somewhere between $1 and $1 million. (\u201cWhatever it is, it\u2019s not enough\u201d is a common response.) This is because they don\u2019t truly care or even believe in what they\u2019re saying. If they did, they\u2019d have looked it up.<\/p>\n

10. TRY TO MAKE YOUR ENEMIES GO BROKE
\nIf they\u2019re not empowered by an irrelevant blog nobody reads, they will go on a Twitter crusade against your clients and advertisers until you\u2019re broke. This is happening right now with Terry Richardson because some girl in England just decided that unsubstantiated allegations from three years ago have to affect his pocketbook today. This is Rules for Radicals #8: \u201cKeep the pressure on. Never let up.\u201d I understand why someone would passionately disagree with someone else, but why does that lead to wanting that person\u2019s family to go hungry? Why does anybody want to jeopardize their enemy\u2019s employees\u2019 mortgage payments? I think it\u2019s because the new left\u2019s snark culture is ultimately anti-American and anti-capitalism. They\u2019ll spend all day trying to get you fired and then get back to Kickstarter where they encourage strangers to give them free money to fund their documentary about oppression.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how many times people have come up to me and said, \u201cI wish I could say what you do but I\u2019d lose my job.\u201d Musicians and artists seem especially desperate to come out of the \u201cnot liberal\u201d closet. We live in a culture of fear where a very small number of shrill infants with no idea what they\u2019re talking about are silencing the voices of the majority. It\u2019s hard having strangers attack your reputation, try to get you fired, and even threaten your family, but being a coward is much worse. Whether we \u201cpunch down\u201d or ignore them, it\u2019s crucial we never stop speaking freely. If they get the world of censorship and thought control they\u2019re pushing for, we\u2019re all doomed, including the \u201cradicals.\u201d<\/p>\n

If hate-crime laws were enforced, even more blacks would be imprisoned.<\/p>\n

If sexism was gone, all lesbian porn and \u201cslut walks\u201d would be banned.<\/p>\n

Every gay that got an underage rent boy would be imprisoned.<\/p>\n

If multiculturalism was enforced, sharia law would rule the land.<\/p>\n

Under a truly \u201cradical\u201d regime, the \u201cradicals\u201d would be the first to go.<\/p>\n

takimag<\/a><\/p>\n

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