Interlude 2: deconstruction of one of the systemic PsyOp methods: "divide et impera"

Definitions:

* Metanarrative
* Name calling
* Divide et impera
* Tertium non datur
* Splitting (in psychology) aka black-and-white thinking
* Collective narcisissm

Tool used here:
* Deconstruction

Context - still the same: 2022_JAN:_Private_Message_from_WMF_revealed

As almost one year is passing after the death of Manfred Gerstenfeld, מנפרד גרסטנפלד, our fellow voice for unity and against ideological project capture, let this also be my הזכרה for his memory. 

This article quoted below comes from Jewish Press, where I had the pleasure of reading (and maybe commenting? who knows...) his essays against exceptionalism, "smokescreening" (aka mission creep), cancel culture (aka name calling), conspiracy theories (aka metanarrative), confirmation bias and any ideological divisiveness and boxing into innate categories (aka divide et impera and then splitting the "enemy"). In wikispeak: over decades Manfred had been calling for the applying the WP:5P approach worldwide, just as I have been humbly doing it over these years, on a low-level, in so many WP projects. 

I will post it here and not on my Meta Talk, as an exception, to avoid any WP:POLEMIC or related WP:TLA accusations or pretexts for my SanFranBan. It is also meant to further goad WMF, giving them WP:ROPE, and also hopefully instant understanding, so that they reply in public to my original challenge posted in that Meta thread. 

(Admin note: to forestall any similar further attempt at silencing me: do not presume anything even herein, as I know of and operate by Wikipedia:No_legal_threats here. Ask before and now, if in doubt, as you should always have doing to anybody. It is an off-wiki essay explaining how you unwittingly operate, O! WMF misTrust and unSafety, our wikisister.)

Key to deconstruction:
Presumed groups (this "divide et impera" strategy) and ideologies "A, B, C ... X, Y, Z" -> us, Wikipedians, and our presumed innate group characteristics.

Let us thus press Ctrl+H to analyze the WMF's recent approach to us, Wikipedians, using today's Jewish Press article as a template: 

The Department of [Wikipedian] Rights (OCR) announced it has opened a formal investigation into a complaint alleging [Wikipedians] at [Project A] have been subjected to severe and persistent anti-[Wikipedian] harassment from both [administrators] and peers. OCR evaluates all complaints it receives, but it only pursues investigations in those it determines to warrant a more thorough investigation.

The complaint OCR will investigate was submitted on behalf of [Wikipedians] in the [Wikipedian] master’s program at [Project A] and alleges that [Project A] has allowed a hostile environment to proliferate on its [platform] in violation of [WP:5P]. It was prepared by [Group B].

The OCR complaint outlines how [administrators] have maligned [Wikipedians] based on [whatever] identity, advancing age-old anti-[Group B] tropes concerning [Group B] power, conspiracy, and control, and endorsing the narrative that [Group B] are [Group X] and privileged and therefore contribute to the systemic oppression of people of [Group Z]. For example, in one [essay] [Group Z] stated that [Group B] are oppressors in this [Project A]. In another instance when [Wikipedians] were asked to rank their identities [this is an important caveat: nobody should be asked about any identity anywhere! While also WMF has been doing so officially many times just to participate in the events, details forthcoming], and a [Wikipedian] ranked [Group B] before [Group X], the [Wikipedian] was berated and told they are part of the dominant culture that does not understand oppression. Relegating [Wikipedians] into [whatever] categories occurred multiple times in [Wikipedia].

Fellow [Wikipedians] also bullied and harassed [Group B] [Wikipedians] in [materials] and on social media using the same ethnic stereotypes, tropes, and divisive concepts that [WMF] promoted in their [initiatives]. For example, in a [Wikipedian] [essay], a [Wikipedian] expressed her desire to strangle a [Group B] [Wikipedian] and others showed support. When another [Wikipedian] came to the victim’s defense, the [Wikipedian] who made the attack accused the [Wikipedian] of being racist, claiming they were “part of the dominant culture” of [Group X] who “continue to perpetuate power structures.” When the [Group B] asked [Wikipedia] administrators to intervene and establish ground rules against threats and bullying, fellow [Wikipedians] objected that ground rules do not apply when racism needs to be called out, assigning [Group B] the role of racist oppressors.

“By advancing the racist and ethnic stereotype that all [Group B] are [Group X] and ‘privileged’ and therefore oppress people of [Group Z], [WMF] members, [Wikipedians] and article[s] in [Project A] thereby invoke the classical anti-[Group B] trope that [Group B] possess disproportionate power and influence in society, which they use for nefarious purposes against non-[Group B], while also subjecting them to racial stereotypes about [Group X] explained [Group B] in its complaint.

[Group B] [Wikipedians] who challenged these divisive narratives or shared their distress about the anti-[Group B] hostility in [Wikipedia] were met with further harassment and intimidation from [WMF] and administrators, who told [Wikipedians] to “get your [Group X] in check” and to “keep your head down” rather than challenge the status quo. For example, when one of the [Group B]  [Wikipedians] tried to explain to an [administrator] that [Group B] should not have to identify as [Group X], the [administrator] told the [Wikipedian] that was a foregone conclusion. When another [Group B] [Wikipedian] explained they are in fact a [Group Q], an [administrator] implied being [Group B] automatically supersedes [Group Q] and makes one [Group X] and privileged.

The severe and persistent harassment of [Group B] [Wikipedians] based on their race and ethnicity has created a hostile climate. In this hostile environment, [Group B] [Wikipedians] are afraid that if they [write articles] or [communicate with] their peers, they will be further disparaged and harassed by [administrators] and other [Wikipedians]. [....] 

“Fighting bigotry should not be a competition between minority groups; it’s not a zero-sum game,” stated [Group B]. “Yet, once again, in a [Wikipedia] [Project A], [Group B] are told they must identify as [Group X], are called privileged, and are accused of being oppressors. This runs completely counter to [Group B] history. It utterly ignores centuries of [Group B] discrimination and murder, which we are frighteningly seeing resurface, and it promotes dangerous age-old anti-[Group B] tropes concerning [Group B] power, conspiracy, and control. Training [Wikipedian] professionals to oppose racism is a laudatory and important endeavor, but you can’t erase, let alone promote, anti-[Group B] in the process.”[...]

This is how such systemic Psy Ops work: divide et impera, so as to "vanquish" the perceived "class enemies". Assigning people to boxes without consulting them and calling them names, all that done in secret, without furnishing precise proofs, thus operating at the lower layers of this pyramid, also as a FUD tactic.  Applying tertium non datur: imputing innate characteristics for further character assassination, part and parcel of these splitting tendencies, so that the mud sticks, also cross-projects:

And thus wreck the overall project and its original WP:5P strategy, so that (any) ideology or any [Group] wins their tactical THE_TRUTH battle.

Zezen

Update 1: 

See a related pop-sci article How to Spot Collective Narcissism in Social Media Posts

"A key characteristic of any group vulnerable to developing collective narcissism is that the group defines itself through its relationship to others—needing external validation and/or an external enemy [...] collective narcissists tend to promote hostility towards out-groups to bind the in-group, and often blame ‘others’ for in-group misfortunes."
Plus some Wikipedia content: 
Primary components of collectively narcissistic intergroup relations involve aggression against outgroups with which collective narcissistic perceive as threatening. [...] A narcissistic group is more sensitive to perceived criticism exhibited by outgroups, and is therefore more likely to retaliate. [...] The members of a narcissistic ingroup are likely to assume threats or negativity towards their ingroup where threats or negativity were not necessarily implied or exhibited.

Ver. 1.1.1