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Lonely White Boy vs Leftist Archetypes

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I see this when they try the game of asking you to define what is Woke. For some it's a deflection technique meant to get you spinning your wheel into a trap but with others I genuinely believe they are so sheltered so as not to know there is any other way of seeing the world so you get potentially drawn into educating them but that often feels like casting your pearls before swine.

One of the most demoralising things when one encounters one of these hatchling archetypes is when it becomes apparent he's in his 50s or 60s, i.e. someone 20 or 30 years older than the person with whom they're verbal jousting, and someone who should know better. You can kinda expect and forgive a certain degree of naivety and moral righteousness from a younger person, but for it to come from an elder, supposedly wiser, person is embarrassing.

A lot of this type of argument is often done of trying to catch you out, and the chance to call you "rayciss" if you slip up.

I encountered 'The Hatchling' in a graduate niece (Psychology!!!) of my partner. We were discussing ISLAM, and I stated that the reason for Islamic Terrorism is 'religious'. At which point, she interrupted with, "But ISLAM isn't like that. It doesn't inspire people to go and do 'that sort of thing' (apologies to Father Ted!). A graduate in Religious Studies, myself, I asked her how she understood Islam; and to explain the sources she was using for her 'knowledge' of Islam.......at which point her father shut down the discussion, because he realised his daughter was in trouble! I need hardly add that her father is rather 'relativist' in his beliefs.

They're not really a blank slate though. As Zizek I think rightly says, we're saturated with ideology. The hatchling is saturated by mainstream ideology and hasn't the courage, intellectual or moral, to step outside of the ideology they've been throat-fed since childhood.

“As a hatchling I support the current thing”.

Excellent analogy with the squash tactic. It reminds me of what a certain German said about Skeksis once: That you'll debate with them, they'll debate in bad faith, then the next day they'll pretend like the debate never happened; like you never made the points that you did. And it makes me wonder... what should our response be? Some of us believe we need to win the war of ideas, some of us believe we need not waste our time. Debating with these kinds of Liberals and Skeksis is, I believe, pointless and demoralising. We've more important things to do with the little time we have.

I encounter the Transference archetype quite often. They have daddy issues and seek to transfer those feelings onto others. When they encounter someone that is against immigration, they take on the role of the immigrant and you become the oppressor. You become their father in the argument. So they're not necessarily sticking up for minorities, but rather standing up to their father. It's also interesting when they have been doing it for a long time and awareness kicks in and they see what they've been doing all those years. They can't then simply say they were wrong for so long, so they escalate in the hope that you will stop them. That's why I believe they are getting crazier. It's because they want to be stopped and save the humiliation of being wrong.

This is everyone with a Ukrainian flag in their bio on Twitter at the moment.

Another archetype: The kind of person (usually a woman) who often use the following phrases: 1) "Don't judge" or "stop hatin'"- If there's anyone you consider a friend then you've judged people's character based on their actions, so we all do and should judge people. People who say this phrase will use it as an excuse to behave poorly, make poor life choices, or hang out with the wrong crowd. Example: a young person who does drugs and hangs out with sexual degenerates. 2) "No regrets" or "you only live once" - This concept harms not only the person who has (or pretends to have) this mentality, but also those they may give advice to or those who may see them as an example or might see their hand-waving of grave errors as a model. People who say this phrase will often pretend that all of their mistakes made them stronger, when in reality those errors may have put them in the habit of making mistakes or taking pointless risks. Example: a woman who wastes her 20's traveling by herself, sleeping around, or indulging in a useless university degree.