"when values and reality do not match" article

[WoodrowFan]

I wa sdoing some unrelated research and I stumbled upon this article..

This paragraph especially struck me. Yes, it could apply here, but I was mostly thinking of the freeper and reich-wing radio attacks on people like Clinton, and Clark and the media.

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The German's have a phrase which I think is rather expressive. "Flucht nach vorne" means to take refuge in an attack. When a consensus is challenged by an individual or individuals whose investigations are disturbing to the smooth running of a network and its consensus there are several possible responses. The dissident can be ignored. They can be "befriended" or there can be a resort to a "Flucht nach vorne". In this "flight forward" probing and relevant questions get diverted away from the issues by attacking counter questions directed at the "behaviour" of the people making them . Why are you being so obstructive? Why are you being so confrontational? The questions directed at your personality and your "interpersonal skills" cover up an absence of a response to what the obstructiveness is about and what issues underlie the confrontation.

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entire article is here...

http://www.sharelynx.net/A_Strategy_For_Losers/Whistle.htm

[Justice]

1. Can You Say Sean Hannity, et al?

"In this "flight forward" probing and relevant questions get diverted away from the issues by attacking counter questions directed at the "behaviour" of the people making them . Why are you being so obstructive? Why are you being so confrontational? The questions directed at your personality and your "interpersonal skills" cover up an absence of a response to what the obstructiveness is about and what issues underlie the confrontation."

Great Article, thanks.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. You may add

questioning mental health as well.. I know to a point I was a whisstle blower for a minor little thing that does not matter any more.