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Friday, January 25, 2019

The Gomez Effect

Gomez kissing Morticia's hand. 'Tish, you spoke French!'

(Or, "Shibboleths And You")

Those who recognize the above image need no explanation. For the rest, a brief explanation: Gomez Addams, patriarch of the Addams family, is driven into a passionate frenzy whenever his wife Morticia speaks French, even one word of it, exclaiming, "Tish, you spoke French!".
I have seen few people in the world who could be so worked up over words, or at least ones not meant to be harmful and belittling, until I watched the "leftists" of the Internet listening to whichever person crowed about being "anti-war". They fell for it when Racist Ronnie Paul did it, they fell for it when Racist Sexist Gun-Loving Finger-Wagging Peepaw did it, they even told themselves that Satsuma Shitbag was an "anti-war" candidate because he wasn't the Accursed Emails Woman. And now, now they're telling themselves that Tootsie Garbage and her dictator-loving ilk are "anti-war".

It's a shibboleth. A phrase to separate the in-group from the out-group. And if you're not saying all the shibboleths ("anti-war", "anti-imperialist", "Medicare for All", "Green New Deal", etc.), you're not Of The Body.

And if you're not Of The Body, well, you're not a person. How nice.