Classified Memo to Right Wing Pundits: Confidential from K. R. (you know who)
The virtual lynching of black men has become a fine art in today's media. It is no longer cool to do actual lynching.....much too messy and could get you put in jail.
No...better to lynch a blackman through the media. How does one go about it........? (See OJ, Michael Vick, Michael Jackson, Routine Black Athlete of the Day, Joe the BusDriver, etc.)
- Select a black man who has become popular with the public. He should be handsome, attractive to women, and it is a bonus if he is attractive to white women. (see birth of a nation) Preferably, one who has become admired by white people and has made black people proud. This maximizes the effect of his eventual downfall and reinforces feelings of white supremacy when it happens....you know...the bigger they are.....the harder they fall. (Check)
- Begin a fringe rumor about him that persists and that can later be used to embarass him at an opportune moment. As a matter of fact, test out a number of rumors to see which one sticks.....and provokes the most negative response in the largest number of people.
- Begin a fringe rumor about him that persists and that can later be used to embarass him at an opportune moment. As a matter of fact, test out a number of rumors to see which one sticks.....and provokes the most negative response in the largest number of people.
- Treat him with disrespect, subtly at first, never resorting to name calling. Just create suspicion in the minds of people,---I mean...who is he anyway?
- Refer to his confidence as arrogance, his truthfulness as deceit, his kindness for weakness, his assertiveness for rage, his generosity of spirit as naivete. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
- Set traps for him in public. Aggressive or rude behavior designed to provoke him. When he defends himself, blame him for over reacting and over sensitivity and defensiveness.
- Magnify any flaws, misquote him, quote him out of context, use words that associate him with unpleasant things. Say rude and crude things, and then deny and say...I was just joking. (Works really well, you will be surprised)
- If he ever makes an error, or a misstatement, intensify your rhetoric about the mistake, use words that inspire distrust. (Irresponsible, laughable, radical, angry, militant, crazy, etc.) Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
- Important: Buy a black man or woman to say some of these things for you. Then you can just comment and shake your head with disbelief or agreement, or sorrow and dismay.
- Isolate him from public support. If others fear to support him, they will abandon him publicly when he is most vulnerable. They will be afraid that they will receive the same public shaming if they support him.
- De-humanize any one who publicly supports him.
- Punish and shame, satirize and lie about those who support him. However, do so subtly. Outright lies should have deniability. Of course, you can always "sincerely" apologize.
- Keep him from speaking direct to the public as much as possible. Then tell people what he said, or don't report it accurately. Never give him a fair forum. Never. Pitilessness is our most important tool.
- Disarm opponents by occasionally saying something nice about him. Only do this when you are working against him on another level.
- If there is a penalty for a mistake he made, make sure he pays 25 times the price that any other non-targeted man would pay. After all, he is an object lesson. Never get too uppity. We will do our best to destroy you if you do. Humiliate him. Remember, black men have no rights that a white man must respect.
- Harass him and his image incessantly, until the physical reaction that people have upon hearing his name is one of anxiety and ambivalence, rather than pride or interest. Dread (shame and anxiety) is the emotion we want to evoke. We want people to feel dread when they hear his name in the media. (see Bill Clinton)
- Report his fatigue, his indecision, his gloom, his anxiety, his lack of remorse, his despair.....even when there is none evident.
- Ignore and minimize anything that he manages to accomplish despite this campaign. Act as if it does not exist.
- Ridicule his efforts to fight back....begin the steps over and over again, until he is rendered impotent by election loss, jail, resignation,addiction, political or popular disdain, or violent demise. Then examine his "remains", never letting people forget the words of your campaign against him, even in death.
- Select another popular black man of the day.
- Repeat the process.
(PS> this method works with any celebrity, or persona....we are more powerful than their one lone voice. we surround them, right GB?)These conditions set up a communications double bind.
From Gregory Bateson:
Full double bind requires several conditions to be met:
The victim of double bind receives contradictory injunctions or emotional messages on different levels of communication (for example, love is expressed by words, and hate or detachment by nonverbal behaviour; or a child is encouraged to speak freely, but criticised or silenced whenever he or she actually does so).
In the political world this is exemplified by rightist and leftist messages. On Fox News for example...leftist thought is SHAMED. People holding contrary views are publcly SHAMED, therefore, people who do not wish to be shamed, side with the propagandist.
No metacommunication is possible – for example, asking which of the two messages is valid or describing the communication as making no sense
Questioning is not allowed, or legitimate questioning is not allowed. Contrary opinions are always shown as weak, and right wing opinions always shown as strong and pitiless---lack of empathy is one of our strongest tools.
The victim cannot leave the communication field The attempt to monopolize the airwaves, the demise of the newspapers, is an attempt to permeate communication with the meta right wing message, so that noone in this country can leave the "field".
Failing to fulfill the contradictory injunctions is punishedFailure to agree with the right wing point of view is punished, (loss of job, harassment, public scrutiny, loss of reputation, etc.)
This communication pattern is hypnotic and powerful. There are only three ways out.
- Keep quiet and pretend it is not happening.....denial. This will have long term emotional effects, increase in anxiety, despair, etc.
- Have a powerful other (as powerful in the media as the propaganda) that verifies that the pattern of dehumanization is happening. This will provide relief, but the propagandist can come back in another form, with another tactic, that is more subtle.
- Deciding to fight back, and risk the consequences of a real revolution.
They wish to dehumanize, virtually break, Barack Obama. Along with him all of the dreams and hopes we had when we elected him. That dehumanization can only happen in our minds if we allow it.
I refuse to be a part of it.....I continue to support him, as do many others. This diary was originally published at the beginning of this process...it is still true, mid-stream. Have at it.