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    Cry Bullies: Protecting yourself against social muggers and victimhood aggression.
    Cry Bullies: Protecting yourself against social muggers and victimhood aggression.
    Cry Bullies: Protecting yourself against social muggers and victimhood aggression.
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    Cry Bullies: Protecting yourself against social muggers and victimhood aggression.

    By Robert Juliano

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    Practical debating and arguing skills to protect yourself from verbal bullies. The verbal bullies hide behind being a victim, all the while being abusive and manipulative (hence "Cry Bullies").

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Juliano
    Release dateSep 20, 2017
    ISBN9781370627509
    Cry Bullies: Protecting yourself against social muggers and victimhood aggression.

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      Cry Bullies - Robert Juliano

      Cry Bullies:

      Protecting yourself against social muggers and victimhood aggression.

      Published by Robert Juliano at Smashwords

      2017

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting my hard work.

      Dedication: To my very patient wife, Rebecca Hedreen.

      Acknowledgements

      Very few authors come up with a book on their own. I’m not one of them. I’d like to thank the following people for helping me…

      My wife, Rebecca Hedreen, for putting up with me on this trip.

      Marc MacYoung, for patient advice and guidance..

      Aaron and the semi-saturday card game and philosophical society.

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Chapter One: What they Are

      How they got that way

      Chapter Two: Where They Go

      Three Theories

      The Theory selects the Target

      Chapter Three: What They Do

      Simple Games

      Dog Whistle

      Virtue Signaling

      Word Fogging

      Complex Games

      Incitement games

      Whisper campaigns

      Shutdown games

      Predators

      Swarms

      Witch Hunts

      Short Circuiting Alinsky’s Rules

      Afterword

      Bibliography

      Appendix

      Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian,

      and thinks that the customs of his tribe

      and island are the laws of nature. -- George B. Shaw.

      Forward

      Pardon Bob Juliano, for he is an academic and a nerd.

      In other words, he’s not a professional writer or spinmeister. He’s not as smooth, polished or artistic in crafting words as a novelist. He’s not as glib, rhetorical, persuasive or practiced in manipulation as commentators and pundits. He’s not what you’re used to.

      What he is is someone who knows what he’s talking about – especially when it comes to how people will verbally and emotionally attack you.

      Cry Bullies: Protecting yourself against social muggings and victimhood aggression is a study in the common attacks, tactics, rhetoric, distractions, tricks and insults that have created such division and hostility in this country.

      What many people don’t realize is how amazingly predictable these strategies are. Nor do they know how easy they are to defeat them once you know them. And not knowing is pretty painful.

      Being attacked this way (and make no mistake, it is an attack) has become both common and is an academic conceit. It’s commonly used by people who are pretending to be smarter to you, put you down and shut you up. (They’re right. You’re wrong. So go sit in the corner and feel ashamed about how wrong you are.)

      As it is an academic conceit, it makes sense to go to an academic to learn how to blow it out of the water. So despite the writing style being — not surprisingly –- academic now and then it’s well worth working through. Not just so you can protect yourself and others against such attacks, but well, let’s admit it, it’s kind of fun to say, Torpedoes away! Marc MacYoung

      If a behavior is wrong, it is wrong no matter who is doing it. While many will justify why they are doing it, the ones you really have to watch out for are the ones who are doing it and denying that is exactly what they're doing. Marc MacYoung

      Chapter One: What they are

      Ever see happen or been the target of it?

      You: Chicago’s crime scene is getting completely out of hand.

      SJW: That’s Racist!

      You (confused) : When did I say anything about Race?

      SJW: You are being problematic about a very large community of People Of Color!

      You (trying to stay calm) : I was talking about the crime levels and the safety…"

      SJW, interrupting: "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU SOUND LIKE?

      You (feeling attacked) : Hey! What’s going on? I was trying to talk about making things safer…

      SJW: OH! MY! GOD! Can you be ANY more SEXIST? MANSPLAINING LIKE THAT!?"

      You (wondering what the hell happened): Why are you yelling about other things?

      SJW: "WHY ARE YOU IGNORING MY FEELINGS?

      Let me lay out some uncomfortable facts:

      1.) There’s a hell of a lot of messed-up/hurt people out there.

      2.) A lot of people are looking to put that hurt on someone else – either by attacking you to vent

      off internal pressure, or to scare third parties into doing things for the hurt person.

      3.) They need a safe target.

      4.) In order to stay safe in their attack, they stick with well-run reliable patterns.

      5.) They get off on it. (Abusing others gives them a sense of power and control.)

      I wrote this book to serve as a quick and dirty guide to dealing with certain types of people. People that delight in stirring the pot and spreading ill will: the social mugger. There are a lot of names for these kinds of people: wind up merchant, shit pot stirrer, troublemaker, gadfly, Special Snowflake, etc. I’m going to flash my nerd credentials by quoting Firefly: there ain’t nothing worse than a monster who thinks he’s right with God. Their pain and dysfunction aside, a lot of the people playing these games think they are right with God – and they’re coming after you.

      I’ve crawled through Academia for 30 years. During this time, I’ve seen the general rise of smugness and the fall of critical thinking. This parallels the trend of shifting from teaching people ‘how to think’ to ‘what to think.’ People who have been indoctrinated into this new ‘Academic’ style sincerely believe that they are educated, knowledgable, and thinking clearly on the subject. They have fallen into dogma. Smugness, rhetoric, hostility, and aggression are used to to cover the holes in these beliefs, while pretending to be logical and reasonable. What’s scary is how often they are encouraged to go out and proselytize. This isn’t rational. These are true believers seeking to convert or punish.

      Also, I’ve spent about the same amount of time in ‘normal’ and less than normal groups. I’ve seen this spread of convert or be punished fervor spread from Academia into other circles. This is how it can come into your life even if you are far from your college days. You see it on social media, in conversation, you see it on the news as protesters push for further and further extremes.

      A simple way to think of social muggers is seeing them as little traveling rain clouds. Rain clouds travel in predictable lines, pushed by wind they piss down on you (and piss you off) wherever they go. Sometimes a number of them will clump together, and create wind, lightning, etc. If they were real rain clouds, you could change course to avoid them, put on a rain coat, grab your umbrella, or you can get wet. The difference is, real rain clouds don’t

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