Todays lesson - "a Kernel of truth".
And this is not to say or imply that anyone here needs to be taught a lesson. This is for those that may not be infused with this particular bit of knowledge. A public service, if you will. My contribution to understanding DUmmies.
Its very important to listen to what DUmmies say, if you can stomache it. It provides insight into their madness. Todays particular insight, has to do with what I call "a kernel of truth". In the movie "Open Range", Kevin Costners character Charlie Wait at one point says, "Most of the time, a man will tell you his bad intentions if you listen, let yourself hear". That sentence rings very true, however where DUmmies are concerned, theres sort of...a finer point to it.
Where DUmmies are concerned, you have to...decipher it. Tear away the garbage, the words meant to cloud, misdirect, confuse, mislead, obfuscate, and so forth. To "waldo" what they're saying. They use them habitually, because they're too apt to let slip a kernel of truth, and they know it. But where
is waldo? Well, when you tear away the garbage, they'll often tell you
their bad intentions, and more often than not, tell you something about themselves and their fellow DUmmies in doing so. An involuntary admission. A "truth twitch" so to speak. Waldo.
Exhibit A:
Cerridwen (12,465 posts)
11. "Union thug" is how I've mostly heard it. I imagine context,
as with almost everything, is a factor to distinguish how it's being used. I've also heard it used to refer to Mafia thugs (I'm from Las Vegas, NV) as well as run-of-the-mill street criminals.
I see another poster has said it does now have racist implications which doesn't surprise me at all.
Context.
Lets decipher that:
"Union thug" is how I've mostly heard it."
Yes yes. We're not interested in what this DUmmy has heard. SO we'll 86 that.
I've also heard it used to refer to Mafia thugs (I'm from Las Vegas, NV) as well as run-of-the-mill street criminals.
Again, not interested in what this DUmmy has heard. 86'd.
"I see another poster has said it does now have racist implications which doesn't surprise me at all."
Yes, yes, we're getting to that, but thats just circumstantial evidence supporting todays kernel of truth. We should remember it for the end of the lesson, so while keeping this statement in mind, were going to 86 it.
So what we have left, is this:
I imagine context, as with almost everything, is a factor to distinguish how it's being used.
While that statement is true at face value, there is indeed a kernel of truth hidden inside it. It is not what it seems.
Its camouflaged. Waldo'd.
Recall how the DUmmies like to imagine out of thin air, peoples reasons for being opposed to things. "They don't like Obama because hes a black man" and such. We've all seen it. That and a metric f*ckton of other things they say conservatives believe, which are imagined. Out of thin air. In the case of the term "thugs", we use it to describe people engaged in a specific
behavior. Again, we all know that to be true. We don't care what color people are. We care how they behave. And why shouldn't we? Yet the DUmmies have imagined a context to assign to us. And told us they were doing it. Let it slip. And the fact that we use the term "thug" to describe people engaged in a certain behavior, is proof that they imagined this "racist" context they use to apply to others.
And, after stripping away the last remnants of camouflage we're left with todays kernel of truth. Heres waldo:
I imagine context
Now, remember that thing we were supposed to keep in mind? This:
I see another poster has said it does now have racist implications which doesn't surprise me at all.
Of course it doesn't surprise this DUmmie, because they imagined it, because they're habitual in imagining it. And in the same breath, one sentence away from the kernel of truth, as the DUmmie had written it, we have the DUmmie referring to another DUmmie who has imagined it as well.
Examples of it being put into play right before our eyes, with unintentional acknowledgement that its happening. That DUmmie saw it too, and said so.
Oops.
Thus endeth the lesson.
Oh, and For the record, while I can decipher this stuff semi-effectively, I'm still many lifetimes away from deciphering anything gNads posts.
CMD
