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What Is Derailing? 8 Tactics To Look Out For
« on: August 12, 2018, 05:38:26 pm »
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Have you ever spoken out about an injustice only to soon find yourself in a completely different conversation about an unrelated topic? Chances are, then, you've been derailed. What is derailing, you ask? It takes many different forms, but what they have in common is that they redirect a conversation about a social justice issue toward another issue that is for a different place and time at best or is a total non-issue at worst.

Dictionary.com defines "derail" as "to cause to fail or become deflected from a purpose; reduce or delay the chances for success or development of." In the context of social justice conversations, the thing deflected from its purpose is usually a discussion about oppression....

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Re: What Is Derailing? 8 Tactics To Look Out For
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2018, 05:41:48 pm »
Sometimes you derail people as a nice way to tell them they're full of crap, or a drama queen. SJW's tend to think they, and by extention, their causes are all righteous and holy, and the whole world needs to stop, pivot on a dime, and pay full attention to their little protest.
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Re: What Is Derailing? 8 Tactics To Look Out For
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2018, 07:06:47 pm »
   Guilty as Charged, Your Honour.

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7.Tone-Policing

Tone policing is essentially when you take the focus away from what someone's saying and put it on how they're saying it. Donald Trump is a master at this; he derailed a conversation about him not paying his taxes by calling Hillary Clinton "nasty" for bringing it up. This tactic flips arguments around by putting the person who was originally on the offense on the defense.

   Should I take this opportunity to apologize to the particular Briefer's Threads that I use that on?
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Re: What Is Derailing? 8 Tactics To Look Out For
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2018, 01:26:34 am »
The art of the summary pooh-pooh, in one listicle.
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Re: What Is Derailing? 8 Tactics To Look Out For
« Reply #4 on: August 13, 2018, 01:45:19 am »
SJW article.   Blech!
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Re: What Is Derailing? 8 Tactics To Look Out For
« Reply #5 on: August 13, 2018, 01:55:05 am »
Yes, that's it you SJW snowflakes... When somebody tactfully attempts to change the subject to a more pleasant matter, haul em back around to your favorite social cause and rub their faces in it.

That'll win friends and influence people.

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Re: What Is Derailing? 8 Tactics To Look Out For
« Reply #6 on: August 13, 2018, 02:14:03 am »
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