This weaponizes a post modernist structure into something altogether predatory and pernicious.

A nice explication of the logical fallacy known as the Kafka Trap from el gato malo.  Read the whole thing.  Especially since it is so central to many rubbish arguments made today by the Woke.  

There is a form of rhetorical attack called a KAFKA TRAP.  It’s a logical sophism akin to inverting a “no true scottsman” fallacy.  It has long been the tool of the dishonest and oppressive to prevent and punish dissent and it’s making a major comeback so i’d like to walk through how it works so that folks can see it coming and call it out as the disingenuous and invalid tactic that it is.

In essence, a kafka trap is logical fallacy to transform denial into proof.

It begins with an accusation. “you are a criminal!”

It is triggered by a denial. “no, i am not.”

The trap itself lies in taking the denial as evidence. “Of course you deny it! that’s just what a criminal would say! this proves you’re guilty!”

Now, clearly, when we lay it out in this fashion and imagine a court run this way, it’s immediately apparent that this would be a kangaroo proceeding of the highest order with no foundations in fact, justice, or possibility of innocence.  Show this to anyone in the context of shoplifting and they’ll agree it’s an absurd standard.  No one wants to live like that.

But as we have seen so many times, the denizens of wokesville are all about erecting non-interrogatable salients and elevating them to the purported level of objective fact.  This allows them to pretend that they are “science” and “justice” rather than the precepts of a jihadi religion.

This weaponizes a post modernist structure into something altogether predatory and pernicious. (more detail HERE).   It’s also fundamentally dishonest and much of the output becomes the equivalent of a kafka trap.

Read the whole thing.