It's the perfect name. Just the right tone.
Here's a snippet from a quick & dirty description of the Stasi from CNN:
The Stasi operated with broad power and remarkable attention to detail...Every factory, social club and youth association was infiltrated; many East Germans were persuaded or blackmailed into informing on their own families.
Read the rest here. I think you'll agree the one parallels the other rather too closely for comfort.
The Gunslinger
Got a new one for you, GS: "Xenophile/xenophilia". To be used in the same way as necrophile, zoophile, and any other paraphilia.
ReplyDeleteReason being, none of this should be necessary, we shouldn't have to write this kind of thing and defend our natural instincts and goodness as Westerners against accusations of 'racism' and other thoughtcrimes which aren't even real. We're not the freaks, the odd ones out, they are, with their insane lust for everything Other and wrong and unnatural. They're the ones with the "persistent, intense interests, fantasies, or urges" regarding inappropriate object.
We're not xenophobes, they're xenophiles, and they should not pass go, should not collect $200, but go straight to therapy and stay there.
Nice one, dude! Xenophilia.
ReplyDeleteLove of all that's foreign, alien, unnatural and just plain wrong.
Works for me!