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| Ritual Defamation; Try and envision our forums without it... | |
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| Topic Started: May 2 2012, 12:14 AM (777 Views) | |
| macgobhain | May 2 2012, 12:14 AM Post #1 |
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So, since I have recently been labeled by my teacher as Anti-Jewish because of my history final, I have been doing a lot of reading and came across Laird Wilcox's eight elements of what he calls ritual defamation. While this happened to me in class (obviously not all 8 elements, but most) this has also been the case for myself and I am sure other people on these forums. So, I'm posting this so that we can all refer back to this as what not to do when we disagree in our speculation or on subjects that are controversial, whether they be political, social, religious, philosophical, or scientific. Keep in mind I am not trying to shun responsibility (I did bite off some people's heads) or represent myself as a "bastion of truth", I'm just trying to help us all have a point of reference so that we can improve. Laird Wilcox enumerated eight basic elements of a ritual defamation: First, the victim must have violated a particular taboo, usually by expressing or identifying with a forbidden attitude, opinion or belief. Second, the defamers condemn the character of the victim, never offering more than a perfunctory challenge to the particular attitudes, opinions or beliefs the victim expressed or implied. Character assassination is its primary tool. Third, the defamers avoid engaging in any kind of debate over the truthfulness or reasonableness of what has been expressed. Their goal is not discussion but rather condemnation, censorship and repression. Fourth, the victim is usually someone who is vulnerable to public opinion, although perhaps in a very modest way. It could be a schoolteacher, writer, businessman, minor official, or merely an outspoken citizen; visibility enhances vulnerability to ritual defamation. Fifth, an attempt is made to involve others in the defamation. In the case of a public official, other public officials will be urged to denounce the offender. In the case of a student, other students will be called upon; in the case of a professor, other professors will be asked to join the condemnation. Sixth, in order for a ritual defamation to be most effective, the victim must be dehumanized to the extent that he becomes identical with the offending attitude, opinion or belief, and in a manner which distorts his views to the point where they appear at their most extreme. For example, a victim who is defamed as a "subversive" will be identified with the worst images of subversion, such as espionage, terrorism or treason. Seventh, the defamation tries to bring pressure and humiliation on the victim from every quarter, including family and friends. If the victim has school children, they may be taunted and ridiculed as a consequence of adverse publicity. If the victim is employed, he may be fired from his job. If the victim belongs to clubs or associations, other members may be urged to expel him. Eighth, any explanation the victim may offer is dismissed as irrelevant. To claim truth as a defense for a tabooed opinion or belief is treated as defiance and only compounds the offense. Ritual defamation is often not necessarily an issue of being wrong or incorrect but rather of "insensitivity" and failing to observe social taboos. |
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| seascorpion | May 2 2012, 03:26 AM Post #2 |
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Why Can't I Hold All These Mongols?
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Macg, personally I'd like to apologize about the whole fluoride debate fiasco, normally debates aren't as harsh. Obviously it's changed your opinion about the forum, and I can recall times when other members have received similar treatments. |
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| colddigger | May 2 2012, 03:50 AM Post #3 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Fluoride debate? That was internet fun. But yeah, on a forum such as this that kinda shunning shouldn't be done. |
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| macgobhain | May 2 2012, 04:29 AM Post #4 |
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It's ok man I got pretty rude pretty fast on that too... |
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| bloom_boi | May 2 2012, 10:32 AM Post #5 |
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And now to complete it, we hug.
Edited by bloom_boi, May 2 2012, 10:33 AM.
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"You shall perish, whatever you do! If you are taken with arms in your hands, death! If you beg for mercy, death! Whichever way you turn, right, left, back, forward, up, down, death! You are not merely outside the law, you are outside humanity. Neither age nor sex shall save you and yours. You shall die, but first you shall taste the agony of your wife, your sister, your sons and daughters, even those in the cradle! Before your eyes the wounded man shall be taken out of the ambulance and hacked with bayonets or knocked down with the butt end of a rifle. He shall be dragged living by his broken leg or bleeding arm and flung like a suffering, groaning bundle of refuse into the gutter. Death! Death! Death!" | |
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| Kamidio | May 2 2012, 02:34 PM Post #6 |
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Fakey's opinion on hugging it out.
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| colddigger | May 2 2012, 03:25 PM Post #7 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Brothah I love huggin. Specially trees. |
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| Kamidio | May 2 2012, 03:33 PM Post #8 |
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The Game Master of the SSU:NC
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Are you Spiderman, Cold?
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| dialforthedevil | May 2 2012, 03:50 PM Post #9 |
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Hey bonnie lad Im sorry as well |
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| lamna | May 2 2012, 04:02 PM Post #10 |
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Come now, you really don't think it was all that complicated do you? You had become an inconvenience, spreading dangerous rumours that could hurt the cause* and we couldn't have that now could we? I had neither the time nor the inclination to properly research a topic when my chances of convincing you were so minuscule, and our peers were all equally in the dark about it. After all, we are here to pretend to be biologists, not chemists. So I devised a cunning plan, giving you the opportunity to withdraw, or to be destroyed. Vaccination. The vast majority of scientifically literate people know that being anti-vaccination means you're a misinformed idiot who doesn't give a damn that their rhetoric is killing children. Your choice was simple, withdraw with a laugh and avoid this unpleasantness, or...being shunned, isolated, defensive. My good friend, do not feel bad, you couldn't have won either way, after all, you were facing me. ![]() *Cheap, egalitarian, dental hygiene for the WHOLE WORLD! Whoops, I meant sorry. |
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| Kamidio | May 2 2012, 04:15 PM Post #11 |
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WHOA WHOA WHOA. Lamna is a dentist too? ![]() MAAAN. Your cover was good. Maybe even the best. |
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| lamna | May 2 2012, 04:22 PM Post #12 |
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The Holy Order of the Sacred Tooth looks after it's own, we reveal ourselves only when needed. Now you're all going to get a free bottle of perfectly safe fizzy drink in the next few days, don't worry if it tastes a bit rohypnol-y, that's our new anti-plaque additive! |
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| Kamidio | May 2 2012, 04:30 PM Post #13 |
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Rophywhaty? Is that something I can rip out teeth with and stitch them together into dental abominations? |
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| lamna | May 2 2012, 04:32 PM Post #14 |
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You'll have to speak to Franken Fran about that. |
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| Kamidio | May 2 2012, 05:02 PM Post #15 |
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Franken who? |
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