Conservatives’ rush to cuck in the wake of the Republican National Circus precipitated an exchange on X in which Christian morals were invoked in defense of Death Cult sacred cows.
Was the appeal to Christianity made in bad faith? There’s only one way to know for sure …
Novice online debaters might have been tempted to play along and qualify themselves to the suspected witch.
But the first and most crucial lesson is this: Never accept your opponenet’s moral frame.
Related: How to Test Witches
As observant readers can see from the time stamp, I gave the subject more than the requisite twenty-four hours to make the confession.
Meanwhile, others tried to interact on her terms, with predictable results.
By trying to answer the subject’s challenge directly, you bow to her moral frame. And once you’ve granted her the authority to qualify you, she can disqualify your arguments at leisure.
Don’t give up the moral high ground. Better to maintain a consistent moral frame and hold the subject to it.
Epilogue: The Witch Test remains inerrant …
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Going to copy pasta an X response from user Kangmin Lee against crypto-feminist, Sydney “I sued the Blaze bc of Nick Fuentes” Watson.
She defended Amber Rose and asked what conservatism is. This was his reply:
“In America and the West broadly speaking, one who seeks to conserve/preserve traditional institutions, customs, and values. This is largely informed by Christian political tradition and natural law because Christianity is what built the West. Western Civilization is synonymous with Christendom, or it used to be. All the most monumental & beautiful Western achievements, innovations, philosophical propositions, architecture, music, literature, art, etc that led to GENUINE human flourishing were by Christians.
You do not have to be Christian to be conservative but the reality is much of the moral framework of the West properly understood are the vestiges of thousands of years of Christian morality. There are political battles that may not necessarily be dictated by primary Christian doctrine (halting immigration, preserving linguistic and cultural customs, climate change, etc) but when it comes to fundamental political ideas of family formation, how to treat your neighbor, human anthropology, what constitutes life, etc, Christianity must be the value system that informs it lest other pernicious belief systems like Gnosticism, humanism, Islam, Talmudic Judaism, etc completely takeover. Moral neutrality is a myth.
This is why I know and believe Christian teaching to be the best bulwark and solution against the anti-natalism, sexual degeneracy, cultural subversion, and overall destruction of the West. It’s what built the West, it is what will give it a sustainable future”
Something just clicked. The whole ‘Christianity build the west’ idea applies the wrong metaphor. The Church didn’t build Western Civilization; she grew it. Christianity isn’t the foundation of Western Civ; it’s the soil. Christianity is bigger than Western Civilization and will survive its collapse.
By the same token, upholding Christianity for the sake of building the City on the Hill is backward. Jesus did not say, “You shall build a city on a hill,” but rather, “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.” God will not accept being a means to an end, either. On the contrary, “Thou shall have no other gods before me.”
The GOPhers have cucked hard this week. Their self-defeating pseudo-pragmatism reminds me how right the Psalmist was: “Put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man.” I expect we’ll hear a lot about how we’re now given the choice between “pro-abortion” and “pro-choice.” I rather thought they were the same thing when contrasted with being “pro-life.”
As Brian has said in the past, once Roe got overturned the mask slipped. I’d wager that at least 95% of GOP lawmakers are functionally pro-choice. Therefore, it wouldn’t surprise me to see pro-abortion (any abortion at any time) vs. pro-choice (ban 3rd trimester, push abortion pill as alternative.)
That’s why Kari Lake, Nikki Haley and Donald Trump all pivot to, “Governor Northram wanted to murder babies after they were born!” Congratulations, you oppose murder of a baby once they’ve left the womb.
It’s like how it’s gone from “pro-gay” vs. “anti-gay” to “pro-LBGT” to “pro-LBG(T) as long as it’s not taught to kids.”
Keeping the moral high ground is essential to keeping them out of the tent, which is the easiest way to maintain sanity.
As JD Cowan and others have noted, in the 30’s science fiction fans (or more properly weird fiction, adventure fiction, wonder fiction, etc. fans) were basically normal people who had an interest in a certain type of story. There were certainly eccentrics, but the eccentricities went in all directions and many authors were not weird at all.
By the 80’s we had “true fans” who were weirdos, and new fans who came in because they liked Star Wars or something would be pressured to become weirdos to be “proper” fans. You see something similar occur on a hugely accelerated time frame when comparing players of RPGs from the 70’s with those from the late 80’s/early 90’s (and especially with those in the 00’s onwards.) Nearly every niche subculture has a similar story. It’s not just a matter of being unpopular, since when “nerd culture” became mainstream with the MCU, the weirdo aspects of it remained and intensified (now in full service to the pop and death cults.)
Why does this happen? In every case you see weirdos moving in at an early stage with the clear intent to distort the hobby. In some hobbies, like sports (until the last few decades), they are told how the hobby works and to either fit in or get lost. But in others they are only pushed away with half measures.
For example, if someone comes to your Star Wars fangroup saying things like “Star Wars is a myth that guides us into overthrowing the capitalistic and heteronormative narratives of mainstream society” the response might be “we all have our own political beliefs, but let’s try to focus on the enjoyment of the entertainment aspects of Star Wars without causing trouble for others.” All this does is tell the invader that he can bide his time and slowly inject his subversive ideas over time, while he also brings in fellow travelers to shout down the original fans. The big mistake is, as you say, giving up the moral high ground. By saying that the invader’s “political” beliefs are valid but not something that should be stressed, you’ve conceded:
1.) That weirdo commie nonsense is as valid as traditional American culture.
2.) That interpretations of Star Wars that replace Star Wars with death cult agitprop are a valid way to talk about the franchise.
3.) That if someone is offended, that person can be shut down if enough others agree to do so. Thus ensuring your defeat once the invader gets enough allies and lays enough groundwork.
The thing is if the invader had said something like “Star Wars is just an alternate and inferior reimagining of the future history of Star Trek, and would be improved by making it more scientific with more characters like Kirk and Spock” most Star Wars fans WOULD react in the proper way (i.e. showing the invader the door.)
This lack of spine or vetting in regards to running Fan spaces is how truly vile people always end up in control of them or doing disgusting acts without being caught. The entire siffy Fandom space to this day has a CP/child abuse problem because it attracts “outsiders” and, as I’ve been told as an excuse many times, there’s just nothing anyone can do to filter these people out.
If that’s the case then this “space” shouldn’t exist. What value does it have if it allows abusers and perverts to run roughshod over anyone in their way while the True Geeks pretend it doesn’t happen, or when caught pretend the problem is solved so no one has to actually do anything to address the core issue (see the response to the Moira Greyland revelations). As long as the weirdos can have their little club and their own cool kids table where they can look down on normies nothing else matters.
These spaces are ultimately built on sand, which is why it takes no time at all for them to crumble with the weakest breeze.
Every. Single. Time.
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