The Dance of Death
So there’s this story in the news about the Royal Racists. And I have been thinking to myself lately how the terms "racist"/"racism" can be thought terminating clichés . This works well for racists - people are triggered, and thus easier to manipulate and made to look aggressive etc. while it doesn't work so well for the person whose thoughts have "terminated". It also has a downside for the racist manifesting in cancel culture type response, or social ostracization/violence in some cases. Obviously we are talking about thinking feeling people here but I think that the concept of a thought terminating cliche is a valid one. That’s something that is defined as being something that encourages people to stop thinking and accept predefined conclusions as to what to do next – that person is racist therefore either depending on your identity 1) Join them 2) Rail against them. 3) Attempt to cancel or negate them (this is actually effective) And I say thi...