re: Gaslighting - Most vague phrase ever?

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it means “providing false information in order to cause another person to believe that they are going insane.“

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Yes, but the concept has naturally expanded.

The assumption underlying gaslighting is that objective truth exists and that everyone normally operates on the premise that communication between parties is designed to seek truth. It relies on trust.

With postmodernists and cultural marxists, truth is relative, and communication is always a battle for power between competing groups.

So they constantly use language with double meaning. The exoteric meaning of their words is designed to con the other person into adopting their ideology with a vaguely truthy statements, but the esoteric, deeper, true meaning is something else and more comprehensive and the opposite of objective truth.

That’s why every institution that is infected with woke ideology can be said to be using gaslighting techniques.

This evolution and expanded definition of gaslighting happened naturally. In fact, the very effort by wokists to deny this usage and control the language is gaslighting in and of itself by the new definition. It’s not surprising that the wokists are using a different standard for themselves than for everyone else when it comes to understanding the development of language.