unthrifty–loveliness:

salkryn:

It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot-in-the-door_technique

Hey remember how you guys kept saying “why not just go to another bakery”? 

theunderestimator-2:

Johnny Rotten in a safari hat during the
“Never
Mind The Bollocks” promo tour of stores and radio stations in November 1977 and QC John Mortimer, the lawyer The Sex Pistols brought in to defend them against obscenity charges over the use of the word “Bollocks” that got their seminal debut album banned from record stores.

Johnny Rotten’s thought was that nobody had the right to tell them what words they can and cannot use: “My attitude was to get the best fucker we could to snap back at them.” And so they did.

According to

English writer, broadcaster and music journalist

Jon Savage:

“Using Mortimer
seemed like

using a sledgehammer to crack a nut…”.

John Mortimer was no stranger to
unorthodox clients, liberal causes

and anti-Establishment cases where public morals seemed
to be at stake, succesfully defending, for example, the publishers of Oz after their “Schoolkids” edition had depicted
Rupert Bear in a state of high priapic excitement or the porn actress Linda Lovelace after her autobiography had landed her
in court.

At the hearing of the case on
Nov.

24th, 1977,

he brought in Professor Kingsley, head of English Studies at local Nottingham University
and a former Anglican priest, who went in the derivation of the word “bollocks”,
most commonly used as a term for testicles,

as a 1000 year Old English word used to describe a small sphere, but actually also meaning ‘priests’, as well as ‘rubbish’, due to priests’ sermons being full of it, thus accurately translating the album’s title as “Never Mind The Rubbish, Here’s The Sex Pistols”, 
as he characteristically said

while folding down his polo neck to reveal …a dog collar!

The defence also suggested that the prosecution and the Establishment
were not interested in the decency or otherwise of the word ‘bollocks’
but instead were waging war against The Sex Pistols themselves and the judge dismissed all charges:

“We must reluctantly find you not guilty.”

Johnny Rotten had attended the hearing in his safari hat and as he exited the courtroom, he eloquently commented:

“Great! Bollocks is legal. Bollocks! Bollocks! Bollocks!”

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