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What, then, are these Rationalist clowns yapping abt?
Given Ziz’s nuanced analysis & rejection of their coercive ways, the Rationalists’ accusations that she is violent or extremist are likely an attempt to discredit & silence her.
It is, in fact, the Rationalists who, as we have seen in pts. 21, 22, & 23, will seemingly go to the ends of the earth to demonize & psychologically attack those who disagree w/ their “ethics”.
If they are using projection to frame Ziz as dangerous, this would not surprise us: projection is often used by high-control groups to justify the suppression of dissent “by any means necessary”. This, incidentally, aligns with Ziz’s own concept of Invasive Motive Misattribution, where oppressive systems manipulate narratives to make individuals doubt their own moral clarity (& to make onlookers doubt the moral clarity of dissidents).
The Rationalists may fear Ziz’s defiance and moral independence. On her blog, she spends a lot of time musing abt how to develop & popularize better ways of being, which would indeed threaten the Rationalists’ ideological control. Accusing her of extremism seems to have been their attempt to prevent Ziz’s ideas (which Anna describes as “poisonous plants”) from gaining influence, & from inspiring other Rationalists to break free of their soul-crushing “business-as-usual”.
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