KatBranchman

Maybe you're seeing a lot of the Woke Right wagon-circlers attacking everyone who criticized Jack Posobiec for this moment (and a lot of etc., including his photo op with Myron Gaines in a hoodie mocking the Holocaust), claiming people "hate Christians" or "hate Catholics." Malicious nonsense, of course, but it works. Let's explain the concept of "wound collecting," which the Woke do and did a lot, but which afaik is an Islamist tactic (maybe the Woke learned it from them while training in Palestine, idk). We'll also explain a Woke-style manipulative lie everyone needs to be reminded of every few weeks now. First, wound collecting is a term that describes starting trouble and then playing the victim when criticism arises as a result of that trouble. I first encountered the term from @AsraNomani, who was using it to describe a reliable pattern of cultural Jihad, probably most obviously when Islamists come in and cause undeniable problems and then cry "Islamophobia" and play the wounded minority when it gets called out, criticized, stood up to, or prosecuted. Another term for wound collecting that was popular for describing Woke intersectional feminists, who use the technique overwhelmingly, is "crybullying." The concept is the same, playing off victim status after they start trouble and see it answered, and I'm adding it just to help convey the concept. We're seeing a lot of wound collecting over Jack's stunt here (note the clenched, raised fist, btw, regardless of what it's holding). Jack did an undeniable provocation that cannot even be fully separated from the other undeniable provocations he did at the same conference (e.g., posing for the photo with Myron Gaines in his pro-Holocaust hoodie, hammering the USS Liberty nonsense, coaxing Megyn Kelly's prevarications, etc.), just to limit things to AmFest. Btw, it cannot be doubted seriously that Jack knew exactly what he was doing in posing with Myron Gaines and therefore put TPUSA, which he is known to work for and/or closely with, in the position that photo put them in, which is really bad. Had to be deliberate and knowing, especially given the fragile state of TPUSA after Charlie's assassination, which Jack also appeals to more or less endlessly to avoid legitimate criticism. So we see a lot of the usual agitators out claiming that people (like @marklevinshow, particularly, who called Jack a "crackpot" connected to the context of this scene) "hate Christians" or "hate Catholics," which is especially egregious, allegedly, because it's "right before Christmas" (as is America Fest, btw...). That's blatantly untrue and a pretty disgusting bit of agitating propaganda on its own, especially claiming some miraculous shield from criticism around any sufficiently recognized Christian holiday (as though these same people didn't start the shit-slinging fest of H1-B visa "debate" last Christmas and then hide behind the same "but it's Pride Month"-style defense then too). It's also more than agitprop. This manipulation is a standard where criticism of a member of a community is illegitimately generalized to the whole community through some kind of claim to symbolism or erasure of relevant contexts. This is a bread-and-butter Woke and wound-collecting (dialectical) manipulation. To explain, let's make the tactic clear and provide parallel examples. Here's the claim we're all facing: People are criticizing Jack Posobiec (an individual Christian and an individual Catholic), therefore those people hate or are attacking Christians or Catholics, as a group. Here's a parallel claim we've all faced: People criticize an individual feminist (who is a woman or a man white-knighting for women as a class) for a terrible opinion, therefore those people hate or are attacking women, as a group. Here's another: People criticize BLM (a destructive Race Marxist movement) for its own radical behavior, therefore those people hate or are attacking racial minorities or black people, as a group or as groups. Another still: People criticize drag queen story hour and the groomers who participate in it or support it, therefore those people hate or are attacking "LGBTQ+," as a group. One more, more on the nose: People criticize theocratic Christian Nationalists (who are individual Christians), therefore those people hate or are attacking Christians, as a group. Super familiar, yeah? Very manipulative too. And once you see it, you can't unsee it. Dialectically, this is called "superseding the individual through identification with the (alienated) group." Marx actually writes about it, sort of, in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (Paris, 1844). That is, it's a known manipulation. Practically, what it does is hides a bad actor behind a sympathetic group. The bad actor is shielded by claiming that he's "just" representing the cause of some group (that's victimized or beleaguered, usually) and so the people criticizing his bad actions, agitation, or provocations are "attacking" or "hating" the group. It's extremely disingenuous. The purpose of this tactic isn't just to generate a shield and sympathy for the bad actor through the group, though; it's also to increase both the sense of victimhood and alienation of the group as well as their willingness to rally behind and identify with the provocateur as an emblem of their "group interests." This is what Marx actually wrote about in EPM in 1844: "Supersession by retraction of alienation into the self." That is, you adopt a victimized group-based identity (and lose your individuality and your capacity to think for yourself) by seeing yourself as a member of a victimized group and retracting that sense of alienation, victimhood, oppression, and insult into yourself. The point is to identify more with a group and its perceived leaders (often, the provocateurs) and thus to become an NPC for their cause. Thus we see not just the mechanism of wound collecting, but how wound collecting is used specifically to increase a kind of perverse in-group loyalty to radicals and troublemakers. It's everywhere this year. Don't fall for it! Also, be more aware of the people who are trying to pull it on you. They're every bit as manipulative and malicious as the Woke intersectional feminists, BLM, Queer Theorists, and Hamas (et al.) Jihadis and should be regarded as such.