Magic Words

Posted by James Bowery on Wednesday, 13 January 2010 00:44.

Magic words are speech acts that do without meaning.

But what do they do?

Here’s an example:

Magic WordWhat It Does
EXTREMISTDraws attention away from the fact that the magician is less principled than his victim.

We get bogged down in arguing the meaning of magic words when their meaning is hardly relevant.  Moreover, understanding that these are acts of magic may help us understand why magic has carried a death sentence in many cultures.

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Posted by Rusty on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:24 | #

Thank you, James.  More, please, on this subject of magic and how it is used against the victims.


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Posted by Armor on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:23 | #

“Stupefying words” are magic in that they induce brain paralysis in the betwitched person. Their obscure meaning is never provided by the accuser/spell thrower. It is the victim’s task to try to reformulate the accusation before it can be rebuffed. It takes the focus away from the subject of contention, and creates a parallel debate about the morality of the dissident person.

Magic words are repelled by having a list a snappy refutations at the ready: example.


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Posted by Willy Garrett on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:11 | #

JB,

Majority Rights had a thread a couple years ago that drilled into the Lexicon of “Liberalism”.  I think a Rosetta Stone for the unawakened is a valuable tool.  Maybe that thread can be resurrected, edited, and then added to a prominent place here.

I think three definitions of the control words are helpful:

1)  The intended meaning of the word to the white consumers of the MSM
2)  The inferred meaning to the producers of the MSM
3)  The meaning to awakened Whites

For example:

Racism
1) Unfavorable attitudes or actions towards other people based upon their race or ethnicity
2) The attitudes and actions of Whites who are intolerant, hateful bigots opposed to peace and harmony
3) A magic word to shut us up so as to not fight our dispossession and genocide

Searchers need to see stuff like to help free themselves from the matrix.

As you say these words are killing us and rarely mean anything more than “shut your white mouth and get to the back of the bus”.


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Posted by Tanstaafl on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:20 | #

populist - Any advocate for democracy whose naivete threatens the plutocracy.

racist - Any White who isn’t anti-White.

xenophobe/isolationist/nationalist - Any White who opposes globalism.

nazi/neo-nazi/fascist/anti-semite - Anyone who any jew doesn’t like.

White privilege - Being the only race anyone can insult, criticize, and scapegoat for profit.


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Posted by Guessedworker on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:00 | #

I can see I’ll have to update the Little Lexicon:

http://majorityrights.com/index.php/weblog/comments/the_little_lexicon/


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Posted by Lurker on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:29 | #

the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine” those groups.

Its enough to make one laugh.

Are they going to be as convincing and effective as all those multicultists who show up here and win all the arguments?


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Posted by torgrim on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:05 | #

“As head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Sunstein is in charge of *oversee/ing policies relating to privacy, information quality and statistical programs according to the White House Website.”
Magic words, anyone?

*oversee,v.officially supervise (workers, work, etc.). (OE ofersion look at from above (as over-, see’)
direct, manage, watch (over), keep an eye on, administer, superintend, run, supervise, handle, control,
Oxford dictionary.

Sorry, I don’t need no stinkin’ Overseer, or Baadgeez either! This isn’t Mexico/Brazil, YET!


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Posted by torgrim on Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:19 | #

“Treasure of the Sierra Madre”, “no stink’in baadgeez.


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Posted by James Bowery on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:58 | #

Dasein gets it.

The meaning of these words have been submerged in their action.


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Posted by Dan Dare on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:45 | #

‘Jew’ is an interesting one. While it is still borderline permissible to use the adjectival form ‘jewish’, the use of the noun-form ‘Jew’ is almost entirely proscribed. Whereas the former is relatively innocuous if a little gauche in polite circles, normally having the sense of referring to someone whose goes to church on Saturday rather than Sunday but who is otherwise entirely unremarkable, the latter carries with it connotations of hostility, anti-Semitism and genocide. Just to hear the term conjures visions of transports rolling again to the East.

‘Jew’ is rarely seen these days in print without the prepended modifier ‘self-hating’.


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Posted by James Bowery on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:14 | #

I find it fascinating how long this magic word ‘Jew’ has been prohibited.  In 1919, Henry Ford began “The International Jew” with this:

There is a vague feeling that even to openly use the word “Jew,” or to expose it nakedly to print, is somehow improper. Polite evasions like “Hebrew” and “Semite,” both of which are subject to the criticism of inaccuracy, are timidly essayed, and people pick their way gingerly as if the whole subject were forbidden, until some courageous Jewish thinker comes straight out with the good old word “Jew,” and then the constraint is relieved and the air cleared. The word “Jew” is not an epithet; it is a name, ancient and honorable, with significance for every period of human history, past, present and to come.


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Posted by Willy Garrett on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:41 | #

Sadly Ford was ultimately struck dumb by the incantation of “antisemite”.


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Posted by Tanstaafl on Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:48 | #

Many Whites consider White a taboo word, unless it’s used in a negative context.

What it does: conveys a racial awareness that tends to elicit a censorious response.

Whites typically consider this response unpleasant and seek to avoid it. The magic in this case can be defused just as Fred suggests for “jew”. Use the word plainly and matter-of-factly. Let those who have a problem demonstrate that they are indeed the source of the problem.


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Posted by John on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:27 | #

Is there any other race for which-denotative words referring to it so consistently acquire negative connotations?



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