"BREAKING: Some Minneapolis protesters are showing up with their babies as “shields” from law enforcement."
"Do not bring your baby to a violent riot."
"They're pre-justifying killing babies just like Israel did."
James Lindsay, anti-Communist on X
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Aside from the technique of disingenuously dragging Israel into this and thus giving away that she's copying the Hamas playbook, what we see here deserves to be named. For lack of a better term, this is a form of Premptive DARVO (Pre-DARVO).
DARVO is an acronym.
Deny
Attack
Reverse
Victim and
Offender
It is a tool psychopathic abusers and narcissists use not only to avoid accountability but to turn themselves into the victims and abuse their accusers.
Normally, DARVO is used after the fact. A psychopathic abuser is caught doing something psychopathic and abusive, and the DARVO cycle initiates.
They Deny wrongdoing and go on the Attack, accusing the person who caught them of causing the problem so they can Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender. Something like this:
"I'm not provoking ICE! ICE is provoking us by being here! ICE is here to hurt us. I'm just engaging in defense of my community! It's self-defense!"
DARVO can be deployed preemptively too, though, as we can see from the narcissistic abuser below (who is not the only one doing it, btw). She is pre-framing a dangerous situation so that if or when something bad happens, she has already reversed the roles of victim and offender.
What's currently happening in Minnesota with ICE is generally classic DARVO according to the hypothetical snippet above, and because it has been believed (and because they're using the Hamas playbook now, actively), mothers are showing up with their babies to obstruct, taunt, provoke, and "protest" ICE, deliberately inviting ugly incidents they can capitalize upon.
Below, we see a psychopathic abuser responding to the official DHS account, which has jurisdiction over ICE (NB: whoever runs this account (Micah Bock, cough) is a Woke Right idiot who should be fired too, but that's beside the point). The DHS account made the simple and plain statement saying not to bring babies to these obstructionary "protests." The psychopathic abuser preemtively framed this as DHS "pre-justifying killing babies," adding in "just like Israel did" to make it even less honest, more psychopathic, and more appealing to their deranged base (which insanely believes Israel did the same thing in Gaza).
That's Pre-emptive DARVO (Pre-DARVO). Her goal is to get people to believe that any encounter that arises between a delinquent obstructionist and provocateur that involves a baby she brought to the scene as a human shield is ICE deliberately targeting babies in order to harm them, and believe me, these lunatics will work overtime to get that to happen, including to their own babies.
On the other hand, they'll also say they don't want it to happen while placing all responsibility on ICE not to do anything to the obstructionist and provoking activities they're engaging in, forcing ICE to either stand down or do something that's been pre-framed as deliberate and heinous when it isn't.
This is unbelievably psychotic on every level.
Now, you might think I'm exaggerating about what's happening, but this is directly out of the Woke activist playbook (with a Hamas twist of using babies, not just women and mothers, as human shields. See BeautifulTrouble.org. Let's take a short tour.
1) Yes, they want to provoke ICE to react with their obstruction and provocation. They train for it. They understand that getting ICE to do something they can frame as monstrous discredits the organization, their operations, and their chain of command with the watching public.
("The real action is your target's reaction" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/t)
2) Yes, they understand that this puts ICE into a lose-lose position, and that's their whole point. They train for this too.
("Put your target in a decision dilemma" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/p)
3) Yes, this is a theatrical program for the watching audience of the broader public in addition to a direct action against ICE in their communities, and they know it. Their own materials instruct them to film and on how to catch ugly moments (which they have provoked) on film so they can publish them out of context, which reliably works.
("Play to the audience that isn't there" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/p)
4) Yes, they are doing deliberately escalating provocations in order to get the reactions they want out of the targets they want to abuse and delegitimize, and they train for this too.
("Escalate strategically" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/e)
5) Yes, they understand the power of putting "sympathetic characters" like women, mothers, and innocent babies in the line of fire as a political weapon and shield.
("Lead with sympathetic characters" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/l)
6) Yes, they understand the power of narrative framing and are doing it all the time, including DARVO and Pre-DARVO.
("Reframe the issue" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/r)
7) Yes, they are using techniques like Pre-DARVO to set narratives they can exploit if the opportunity arises.
("Think narratively" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/t)
8) Yes, they are hoping to provoke situations that allow them to litigate or prosecute and have trained "legal observers" on site to capitalize on anything they possibly can, including training people to take deceptive video out of context that can be used as evidence in court (or social media) later.
("Use the law, don't be afraid of it" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/u)
9) Yes, they are specifically targeting ICE officers in order to discredit and delegitimize ICE, DHS, Secretary Noem, Trump and his administration, Republicans, conservatives, America, and Trump's very popular immigration policy, and they know it. This is the big-picture strategy.
("Choose your target wisely" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/c)
10) Yes, bringing women, mothers, and babies to the front lines and putting them deliberately in harm's way is a strategic tactic they're making use of on purpose.
("Choose tactics that support your strategy" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/c)
11) Yes, they understand the power of Pre-emptive DARVO and DARVO.
("Brand or be branded" beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/b)
Those are just from the PRINCIPLES section of Beautiful Trouble. Many of their organized TACTICS (beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tactic) are also in play, including at least:
Artistic vigils, blockades, civil disobedience, distributed action, lamentation, mass street action, occupation, storytelling, and V-formation.
In other words, what is happening is a highly coordinated, tactical operation taking place on multiple levels, with media apparatchiks like Gray (here) playing a supporting role with DARVO and Pre-emptive DARVO as part of the strategy.
