@Elizafox It's USEFUL. It's so gosh-darn useful.
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@Elizafox It's one of the oldest and most available moves in Western* philosophizing (in the lay "making any sense of the world around you", not needing anything pretentious) -- the Jew From Within; and the Barbarian From Without.
(* whatever that means. Anything you might mean by it it's there.)
Feeling lost and not sure how to navigate your socio-political environment? Just slap these puppies on whatever movement or moment or event or threat -- well, they're all threats, they're all vewwy scawwy -- and suddenly you know exactly where you stand, exactly who to look for for allies, exactly how to approach the threat in confidence and comfort, all the moves practiced and easy as a kata.
@Elizafox (Doesn't need to say -- or even be, directly -- Jews, of course. Feel free to swap the names of the group as necessary -- just plaster on enough of the signifiers and tropes up so that you can expect yourself and your audience to recognize 'em.
Call 'em Jews, call 'em Muslims; call 'em a Homo Menace or a Transsexual Empire, call 'em Indians or Savages; call 'em Rootless Cosmopolitans or Commies or Counterrevolutionaries, call 'em Terrorists and Invaders and Hordes Of Rapists.)
(Just as long as if you're using that one they're scheming and disingenuous, poisoning and subtle. Requiring vigilence, and suspicion, and requires you to harden and purify yourself and your community. Both stronger and weaker, and both undeniably recognizeable and able to be or be controlling anyone (everyone) inside sufficiently undesireable.
and if you're using the other they're powerful and cultureless, indistinguishable and overwhelming, primitive and heartless.)
@Elizafox (Heck, you can use this wherever you can fit it--
Call 'em The 1% if that's what people around you are shouting and you wanna find a way to match the tropes and feel secure, or call 'em Zios if you wanna retreat emotionally/politically but still feel the righteousness of belatedly joining in on opposing a genocide.
Call 'em Huns if you're trying to sell a war against Germany -- it works both times, and is sure a heckofalot easier of a sell than actually caring about what Nazi Germany is doing (and where they learned it from).
Wherever the shoe fits. If you have to cut off a toe to do it? Who cares, not your foot, and their blood's on the table anyhow.
It WORKS. It's USEFUL. It's AVAILABLE and PRODUCTIVE and EASY,
and feels SO. SO. GOOD.)
@Elizafox ((... sorry that maybe got away from me.))
