Familiar jargon
Sexual predators use a pattern of soothing jargon designed to pacify victims as they are stripped of their humanity, and hope is voided from their souls. We see similar patterns of language used by other abusers whose victims are resist their assault. These patterns extend into the business world by way of cowardly leadership afraid of, “rocking the boat.”
“Look, let it go. Why do you care so much?”
“Are you crazy? Think about the money!“
“Why can’t you just accept it and play the game?“
“It’s never going to change. Why fight it?“
“What can you do?”
“Why don’t you relax?“
“You’re being emotional”
“Just be happy.”
“there’s no use“
“don’t fight”
“let go”
I was first introduced to this language pattern in the corporate world. I would report glaring issues with respect to worker sustainability, and the expectations leaders had for the automated systems we were building. The phrases above were spewed from the mouths of management like that monologue they memorized for theater class, when they were young, and still had a chance at being human.
In time I learned that this system, which consistently treats workers poorly, is designed to treat workers poorly.
My learning about sexual abuse in recent weeks in relation to Epstein, Trump, and Maxwell has pointed me to correlations in language between the two authorities. The use of these same verbal tactics on those from whom they are seeking submission suggests that corporate leadership and sexual predators are in fact the same population of monsters, operating in different contexts.