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English
Noun
kafkatrapping (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of Kafkatrapping
2014 August 14, Wendy McElroy, “Beware of Kafkatrapping”, in The Daily Bell:The term “kafkatrapping” describes a logical fallacy that is popular within gender feminism, racial politics and other ideologies of victimhood. It occurs when you are accused of a thought crime such as sexism, racism or homophobia. You respond with an honest denial, which is then used as further confirmation of your guilt. You are now trapped in a circular and unfalsifiable argument; no one who is accused can be innocent because the structure of kafkatrapping precludes that possibility.
2021 February 24, William A. Jacobson, quotee, “Cornell Daily Sun interviews Professor William Jacobson on CRT site”, in The Cornell Review, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 February 2021:The risk is that so-called "anti-racist" training and programming at Cornell will resemble such efforts at some other colleges, where sessions turning into race-shaming and racial kafkatrapping (use of denial of an accusation as proof of the accusation).
Verb
kafkatrapping
- present participle and gerund of kafkatrap (alternative letter-case form of Kafkatrapping)