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SL Cabbie
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Date: October 21, 2016 08:50PM
As in Saul Alinsky... Here's the story behind that one (and a honk of my horn to Newt Gingrich for introducing me to his work).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinskyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals(Note to ADMIN: Alinksy was referring to political/cultural activism in general, but his tactics are applicable to what we face from the LDS Church, and they are offered within that limited scope; politics is simply tangential, and IRL, I'm probably a tad more conservative than he was)
>“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
BTW, Alinsky didn't originate that tactic; neither did Mark Twain, one of my own personal heroes. On the history front, I also recall reading Henry Fielding's "skewering" of Sir Robert Walpole in the first part of the 18th Century.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3717030?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contentsEdited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/22/2016 03:41AM by SL Cabbie.