Narrative Warfare: It's Extortion Disguised As Restitution

Dragon-award winner Brian Niemeier lays out the Reparations Scam. It started here on Twitter, and I'm reproducing it here w/ some editing for context.

OK. A lot of folks are missing the real tactic behind calls for reparations & falling right into the Left's trap. I'll explain this one more time, so read carefully.

The Left dominates the culture. They maintain their dominance by controlling the moral high ground. They retain the moral high ground by holding public morality plays where they invite Conservatives in the crowd to come up on stage and play the pre-scripted villain role.

Demands for reparations are really casting calls for Conservatives to don the black hat in the Left's morality play. They fully expect you to reject reparations & launch into indignant economic arguments. They count on it. It's the rhetorical equivalent of donning devil horns.

Remember: the Left is a death cult. A cult can exist just fine w/o a god, but it absolutely needs a devil. These cultists define themselves in opposition to "Nazis-their faith's version of demons. Calling out, denouncing & inflicting suffering on "Nazis" informs their identity.

So when they say, "We need reparations to heal the sin of racism," & you say, "Come pry the $$ from my cold dead hand," all you're doing is giving them a target to rally around & affirm their identity.

But if you say, "OK, how much to stamp 'PAID IN FULL' on America's debt of slavery?" It throws a wrench in the works. They have a script you're expected to follow, & when you don't, they have no response. It ruins their ritual.

If you're lucky, they'll say, "Money can't atone for the sin of racism!" Then YOU take the moral high ground & point out that they're bad-faith actors. Think rhetorical & moral, not dialectical & economic.

This is how it's done. Reparations assumes 2-way negotiation. (e.g. "I'll give you reparations if you give me abolishing abortion") If we don't get to ask for stuff, it's not reparation, it's a danegeld.

Some of you still don't get it. I'm not seriously suggesting paying reparations. None of this is literal. It is rhetorical. The point is to: 1) Stop playing the Left's game by the Left's rules and 2) show normies that calls for reparations are bad-faith demands for tribute.

We can count on it being Danegeld, i.e. tribute, which is a fancy way of saying "extortion" because the threat of violence is implied as punishment for refusing payment.

Why can we count on it being extortion? Because we're already seeing the violence being deployed, and the consistent narrative thread is that the violence stops if payment is made. That's how SJWs extort concessions from corporations (with the aide of fellow cultists on the inside), and now they're doing the same to local and regional governments in the United States.

The moral preening may or may not be sincere, but that doesn't matter. What matters is breaking the narrative that this is a sincere negotiation, which is why calling the bluff is required. The play is to expose this as gangsterism, as extortion, AS CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, and strip away the moral standing of the party demanding tribute.

Hence you play into it, make a conditional acceptance and a counter-offer. Make them out themselves as criminals, and point this out to the normies watching. Once their stolen moral station is gone, make certain the observers get it and then call it a win; on the off-chance that they actually show that they committed extortion or know of it having been done, drop a dime on them to the Feds.

And if they also go about appropriating Christian morality in their preening, hit 'em with the Witch Test.

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