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re: Gaslighting - Most vague phrase ever?
Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:35 pm to skylane
Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:35 pm to skylane
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Maybe this is for the OT, maybe not.... I still don't have confidence that I really know what this term actually means.
Here's my stab...
Gaslighting - Artificially inflating the importance of an issue
Just normal average folks using a word to sound semi intelligent for a couple of months.
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Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:38 pm to jizzle6609
quote:Or just an accurate description of our media
Just normal average folks using a word to sound semi intelligent for a couple of months.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:41 pm to NC_Tigah
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That certainly could include targets thinking they might be crazy. Glenn Youngkin followers without a racist bone in their body seeing a group of Tiki Torch "racists" claim to be part of the Youngkin election effort, might suddenly think they'd been insane for supporting Youngkin in the first place.
In reality the TikiTorch brigade were neither racists, nor Younkin supporters. They were Democrat actors. The TikiTorch BS was a failed gaslight.
You're misunderstanding gaslighting. The express intent needs to be for someone to doubt reality as a whole.
Someone thinking their racist because they support people that other people call racist is not an example of being gaslit.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:43 pm to ChexMix
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Russia, Russia, Russia
Most secure election ever!
Charlottesville lie
No ID for cocaine bag owner
George Floyd
Treyvon Martin
Climate Crisis
Vaccines are completely safe!
Even if all of these things were lies perpetuated by the government or the left, or whatever else you may think. That's still not an example of gaslighting.
There's many correct explanations of gaslighting in this thread.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:45 pm to AggieHank86
quote:
you are certainly welcome to have your own opinion
Awfully decent of you, old chap.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:47 pm to skylane
One of the advantages of being old enough to know stuff from pre Al Gore’s inventing of the interwebs.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:50 pm to AggieHank86
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they are misleading, in some cases intentionally so. But where is the insanity element?
AggieHank... doing it right now, and often for years.
Every time you've downplayed some issue, called it overstated', 'out of context' or 'misunderstood' -- you've been a willing agent.
If they person questions their memory or sanity later, you've done your job.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 5:52 pm to LSUconvert
quote:your post is an example of gaslighting
That's still not an example of gaslighting.
Posted on 7/14/23 at 6:22 pm to ChexMix
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your post is an example of gaslighting
I got you, I'll give you one that's an example and maybe you can see the difference.
If you really believe that my previous post was gaslighting, you're insane.
See? I hope we learned something today.
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