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The Morning RantADJECTIVAL ENHANCEMENT As we all know, progressives don't really like to discuss policy ideas. They're not here to talk policy, they're here to impose it. Like the religious proselytizers who show up at your door, they don't come to listen to you, they come to educate you. For them, there can be no argument. They like to pretend that all of the arguments are over and done with, that their policy preferences are settled issues and debate is not only closed but off limits as well. There are a number of ways they do this. The most obvious is the various aggrieved minority trump cards that come out whenever one of their policies is questioned by non-progressives, the most well-known one being the "race" card. But there are also gender and sexual preference cards as well. The idea behind these trump cards is that if you get into an argument about -- well, about nearly anything, you whip out your card, and BLAM, that's it. Discussion is now over and you win. Your card gives you the inalienable right to be right. Automatically. And it's not based on on logic or superior reasonings, or even on the amount of effort you put in, but merely on being who you are. That's why it's really funny listening to progressives arguing with each other. Ace did a piece on this several years ago which I did not have the time to search for, but he posted a video of arguing lefties, and they're all trying to trump and over-trump each other with their various aggrieved victim cards and getting frustrated because it wasn't working, and there are no clear-cut tie-break rules in their playbook to determining the winner if more than one trump card is played. "Shut up, he explained" may be a good debate tactic, but only if you're the only guy allowed to use it. Another "you shut up now" trick in the lefties' rhetorical toolkit is something I describe as 'adjectival enhancement', which I know is a bit clumsy, but I can't think of anything spiffier. The best explanation of what this is is an example. This first caught my attention to the Kavanaugh hearings where he was accused of running a rape boat up and down the eastern seaboard, only the phrase the media used was not 'accused', but rather 'credibly accused.' I had to admire the sneaky brilliance of this. how it sort of rushed the accusation past the zone of dispute. Because it's a lot more difficult to argue against a 'credible' accusation than a mere unadorned 'accusation' standing there by itself with no support. As you can see, that one word, 'credibly', does a lot of heavy lifting. Another example is the phrase that has become en vogue due to the controversy over CRT, 'systemic racism'. 'Systemic' racism is presumably worse than ordinary, run-of-the-mill racism. It's like extra-strength racism, but more importantly, it's racism that you don't have to prove. The phrase is deliberately calculated to put the matter beyond the realm of debate. Progressives don't like to have to prove the things they believe in, and this is no exception. Another aspect of the word 'systemic' is 'obvious' which is an attempt to put detractors on the defensive. That is, we now have to disprove something previously determined to be obvious. Also, the Jan. 6th brouhaha is not just a 'threat', it's an 'existential threat'. And this is the dangerous one, because not only is it an attempt to quash any discussion, but will also be used to justify any countermeasures, no matter how extreme. And the progressives' rhetorical gain-of-function research is proceeding apace.
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