tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7715192283828820189..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: AttacksAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-18430708367172632722020-01-16T13:48:08.268-05:002020-01-16T13:48:08.268-05:00"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, ..."Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)"<br />Saul Alinsky <br /><br />I think it's more like conventions of thought: The party ideology of the day drives much of it. The left tends toward mob psychology, to personalize the attack on individual leaders in order to weaken their position as a holder of power; to terrorize their victims. The right tends to generalize their attack to groups, because organized groups represent the accumulated power. Both see a bigger picture. Conservatives are historically less willing to be confrontational, seeing it as de-constructional to good society, and this is sometimes interpreted as being 'too nice'. Aggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11089648434324058300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-86533396855702584372020-01-16T13:38:03.441-05:002020-01-16T13:38:03.441-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Aggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11089648434324058300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-68227350391981520662020-01-16T09:42:03.374-05:002020-01-16T09:42:03.374-05:00My first thought is that this is similar to the sp...My first thought is that this is similar to the speech/violence dichotomy.<br /><br />Those on the left perceive negative generalizations about groups as an attack on all individuals in that group but see nothing wrong with attacking individuals for membership in groups they find distasteful.<br /><br />The right flips that, seeing little wrong with making (accurate) generalizations about groups but generalizing attacks on individuals for their group associations as attacks on the group.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com