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Kafkatraps: a quick summary.
"Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of X confirms you are guilty of X"
Or, more subtly:
"Even if you do not feel yourself to be guilty of X, you have benefitted from the X of others"
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"Your refusal to acknowledge that you are guilty of X confirms you are guilty of X"
Or, more subtly:
"Even if you do not feel yourself to be guilty of X, you have benefitted from the X of others"
...
Another, wider version:
"Even if you don't think you are guilty of X, you are actually guilty because of a privileged position in the system of X"
"Even if you don't think you are guilty of X, you are actually guilty because of a privileged position in the system of X"
Kafkatraps work by distracting the accused away from the fact that they themselves have done nothing wrong.
Kafkatrapping is emotional abuse.
Kafkatrapping is emotional abuse.
I've just copied from here, in shorter form: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122
The emotional abuse angle of kafkatrapping needs to be understood, highlighted, and people using it on you need to be called out as emotional abusers.
https://twitter.com/JoanOfArgghh/status/1273209098977316864
h/t @RadicalCath for sharing the linked thread.
https://twitter.com/JoanOfArgghh/status/1273209098977316864
h/t @RadicalCath for sharing the linked thread.
An archive link to the original facebook post, because you know how these things go:
http://archive.is/5AUnX
http://archive.is/5AUnX
