The mirror attack in adversarial argument, seen in action The story is in this twitter thread
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1386739669866455043.html Brief summary - a charitable organization was almost taken over by the "social justice" activists but in the end the bosses did not budge and the activists just ran away.
We noticed shared rhetoric among the staff. Terms we heard often:
“systems of power and oppression”
“hegemony”
“marginalized identities”
“intersections”
“centering”
“deconstruct”
“knowledges”
“normativity”One of the tools against the woke mob is the "mirror attack" strategy. (
https://chaource.dreamwidth.org/192032.html) The mirror attack means that we repeat most of what the opponent says, reversing just a few pronouns or a few key words, so that the result is almost the same attack on them.
Here is what happened in the story linked above:
Maybe I shouldn’t be proud of it, but I also learned to use their woke rules against them. When a staff member said I couldn’t speak to a topic bc I’m straight, I told her it was wrong of her to assume about my sexuality just bc I’m married to a man. She immediately groveled.