Gaslighting: I thought this was interesting If you've wondered, as I have, exactly what Gaslighting means, take a few minutes to read this thought provoking explanation. WHAT IS...

debeda

I thought this was interesting
If you've wondered, as I have, exactly what Gaslighting means, take a few minutes to read this thought provoking explanation.

WHAT IS GASLIGHTING?
"The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gas Light, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944. In the story, the husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out these changes. The play's title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly dims the gas lights in their home, while pretending nothing has changed, in an effort to make his wife doubt her own perceptions. The wife repeatedly asks her husband to confirm her perceptions about the dimming lights, but in defiance of reality, he keeps insisting that the lights are the same and instead it is she who is going insane.
We are living in a perpetual state of gaslighting. The reality that we are being told by the media is at complete odds with what we are seeing with our own two eyes. And when we question the false reality that we are being presented, or we claim that what we see is that actual reality, we are vilified as r****t or bigots or just plain crazy. You’re not r****t. You’re not crazy. You’re being gaslighted.
New York State has twice as many deaths from C****-** than any other state, and New York has accounted for one fifth of all C****-** deaths, but we are told that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has handled the p******c better than any other governor. But if we support policies of Governors whose states had only a fraction of the infections and deaths as New York, we’re called anti-science and want people to die. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
We see mobs of people l**ting stores, smashing windows, setting cars on fire and burning down buildings, but we are told that these demonstrations are peaceful protests. And when we call this destruction of our cities, r**ts, we are called r****ts. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
We see the major problems destroying many inner-cities are crime; murder, gang violence, drug dealing, drive-by shootings, armed robbery, but we are told that it is not crime, but the police who are the problem in the inner-cities. We are told we must defund the police and remove law enforcement from crime-riddled cities to make them safer. But if we advocate for more policing in cities overrun by crime, we are accused of being w***e s*********ts and r****ts. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
The United States of America accepts more immigrants than any other country in the world. The vast majority of the immigrants are “people of color”, and these immigrants are enjoying freedom and economic opportunity not available to them in their country of origin, but we are told that the United States is the most r****t and oppressive country on the planet, and if we disagree, we are called r****t and xenophobic. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
Capitalist countries are the most prosperous countries in the world The standard of living is the highest in capitalist countries. We see more poor people move up the economic ladder to the middle and even the wealthy class through their effort and ability in capitalist countries than any other economic system in the world, but we are told capitalism is an oppressive system designed to keep people down. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
C*******t countries k**led over 100 million people in the 20th century. C*******t countries strip their citizens of basic human rights, dictate every aspect of their lives, treat their citizens like s***es, and drive their economies into the ground, but we are told that C*******m is the fairest, most equitable, freest and most prosperous economic system in the world. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
The most egregious example of gaslighting is the concept of “white fragility”. You spend your life trying to be a good person, trying to treat people fairly and with respect. You disavow r****m and bigotry in all its forms. You judge people solely on the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. You don’t discriminate based on race or ethnicity. But you are told you are a r****t, not because of something you did or said, but solely because of the color of your skin. You know instinctively that charging someone with r****m because of their skin color is itself r****t. You know that you are not r****t, so you defend yourself and your character, but you are told that your defense of yourself is proof of your r****m. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
Gaslighting has become one of the most pervasive and destructive tactics in American politics. It is the exact opposite of what our political system was meant to be. It deals in lies and psychological coercion, and not the t***h and intellectual discourse.
If you ever ask yourself if you’re crazy, you are not. Crazy people aren’t sane enough to ask themselves if they’re crazy.
So, trust yourself, believe what’s in your heart. Trust your eyes over what you are told. Never listen to the people who tell you that you are crazy, because you are not, you’re being gaslighted.
Sophocles said: "What people believe prevails over the t***h."
And that's what the media are trying to exploit." - Author Unknown

Mikeyavelli

debeda wrote:

I thought this was interesting
If you've wondered, as I have, exactly what Gaslighting means, take a few minutes to read this thought provoking explanation.

WHAT IS GASLIGHTING?
"The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gas Light, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944. In the story, the husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out these changes. The play's title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly dims the gas lights in their home, while pretending nothing has changed, in an effort to make his wife doubt her own perceptions. The wife repeatedly asks her husband to confirm her perceptions about the dimming lights, but in defiance of reality, he keeps insisting that the lights are the same and instead it is she who is going insane.
We are living in a perpetual state of gaslighting. The reality that we are being told by the media is at complete odds with what we are seeing with our own two eyes. And when we question the false reality that we are being presented, or we claim that what we see is that actual reality, we are vilified as r****t or bigots or just plain crazy. You’re not r****t. You’re not crazy. You’re being gaslighted.
New York State has twice as many deaths from C****-** than any other state, and New York has accounted for one fifth of all C****-** deaths, but we are told that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has handled the p******c better than any other governor. But if we support policies of Governors whose states had only a fraction of the infections and deaths as New York, we’re called anti-science and want people to die. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
We see mobs of people l**ting stores, smashing windows, setting cars on fire and burning down buildings, but we are told that these demonstrations are peaceful protests. And when we call this destruction of our cities, r**ts, we are called r****ts. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
We see the major problems destroying many inner-cities are crime; murder, gang violence, drug dealing, drive-by shootings, armed robbery, but we are told that it is not crime, but the police who are the problem in the inner-cities. We are told we must defund the police and remove law enforcement from crime-riddled cities to make them safer. But if we advocate for more policing in cities overrun by crime, we are accused of being w***e s*********ts and r****ts. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
The United States of America accepts more immigrants than any other country in the world. The vast majority of the immigrants are “people of color”, and these immigrants are enjoying freedom and economic opportunity not available to them in their country of origin, but we are told that the United States is the most r****t and oppressive country on the planet, and if we disagree, we are called r****t and xenophobic. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
Capitalist countries are the most prosperous countries in the world The standard of living is the highest in capitalist countries. We see more poor people move up the economic ladder to the middle and even the wealthy class through their effort and ability in capitalist countries than any other economic system in the world, but we are told capitalism is an oppressive system designed to keep people down. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
C*******t countries k**led over 100 million people in the 20th century. C*******t countries strip their citizens of basic human rights, dictate every aspect of their lives, treat their citizens like s***es, and drive their economies into the ground, but we are told that C*******m is the fairest, most equitable, freest and most prosperous economic system in the world. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
The most egregious example of gaslighting is the concept of “white fragility”. You spend your life trying to be a good person, trying to treat people fairly and with respect. You disavow r****m and bigotry in all its forms. You judge people solely on the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. You don’t discriminate based on race or ethnicity. But you are told you are a r****t, not because of something you did or said, but solely because of the color of your skin. You know instinctively that charging someone with r****m because of their skin color is itself r****t. You know that you are not r****t, so you defend yourself and your character, but you are told that your defense of yourself is proof of your r****m. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
Gaslighting has become one of the most pervasive and destructive tactics in American politics. It is the exact opposite of what our political system was meant to be. It deals in lies and psychological coercion, and not the t***h and intellectual discourse.
If you ever ask yourself if you’re crazy, you are not. Crazy people aren’t sane enough to ask themselves if they’re crazy.
So, trust yourself, believe what’s in your heart. Trust your eyes over what you are told. Never listen to the people who tell you that you are crazy, because you are not, you’re being gaslighted.
Sophocles said: "What people believe prevails over the t***h."
And that's what the media are trying to exploit." - Author Unknown

I thought this was interesting br If you've wonder... (show quote)

Excellent spin on the trendy phrase gaslighting. I knew it meant bullschiff, but I had never known why.
Had a roommate in college who gas lighted, burned himself good doing it.

roy

debeda wrote:

I thought this was interesting
If you've wondered, as I have, exactly what Gaslighting means, take a few minutes to read this thought provoking explanation.

WHAT IS GASLIGHTING?
"The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gas Light, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944. In the story, the husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out these changes. The play's title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly dims the gas lights in their home, while pretending nothing has changed, in an effort to make his wife doubt her own perceptions. The wife repeatedly asks her husband to confirm her perceptions about the dimming lights, but in defiance of reality, he keeps insisting that the lights are the same and instead it is she who is going insane.
We are living in a perpetual state of gaslighting. The reality that we are being told by the media is at complete odds with what we are seeing with our own two eyes. And when we question the false reality that we are being presented, or we claim that what we see is that actual reality, we are vilified as r****t or bigots or just plain crazy. You’re not r****t. You’re not crazy. You’re being gaslighted.
New York State has twice as many deaths from C****-** than any other state, and New York has accounted for one fifth of all C****-** deaths, but we are told that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has handled the p******c better than any other governor. But if we support policies of Governors whose states had only a fraction of the infections and deaths as New York, we’re called anti-science and want people to die. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
We see mobs of people l**ting stores, smashing windows, setting cars on fire and burning down buildings, but we are told that these demonstrations are peaceful protests. And when we call this destruction of our cities, r**ts, we are called r****ts. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
We see the major problems destroying many inner-cities are crime; murder, gang violence, drug dealing, drive-by shootings, armed robbery, but we are told that it is not crime, but the police who are the problem in the inner-cities. We are told we must defund the police and remove law enforcement from crime-riddled cities to make them safer. But if we advocate for more policing in cities overrun by crime, we are accused of being w***e s*********ts and r****ts. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
The United States of America accepts more immigrants than any other country in the world. The vast majority of the immigrants are “people of color”, and these immigrants are enjoying freedom and economic opportunity not available to them in their country of origin, but we are told that the United States is the most r****t and oppressive country on the planet, and if we disagree, we are called r****t and xenophobic. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
Capitalist countries are the most prosperous countries in the world The standard of living is the highest in capitalist countries. We see more poor people move up the economic ladder to the middle and even the wealthy class through their effort and ability in capitalist countries than any other economic system in the world, but we are told capitalism is an oppressive system designed to keep people down. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
C*******t countries k**led over 100 million people in the 20th century. C*******t countries strip their citizens of basic human rights, dictate every aspect of their lives, treat their citizens like s***es, and drive their economies into the ground, but we are told that C*******m is the fairest, most equitable, freest and most prosperous economic system in the world. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
The most egregious example of gaslighting is the concept of “white fragility”. You spend your life trying to be a good person, trying to treat people fairly and with respect. You disavow r****m and bigotry in all its forms. You judge people solely on the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. You don’t discriminate based on race or ethnicity. But you are told you are a r****t, not because of something you did or said, but solely because of the color of your skin. You know instinctively that charging someone with r****m because of their skin color is itself r****t. You know that you are not r****t, so you defend yourself and your character, but you are told that your defense of yourself is proof of your r****m. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
Gaslighting has become one of the most pervasive and destructive tactics in American politics. It is the exact opposite of what our political system was meant to be. It deals in lies and psychological coercion, and not the t***h and intellectual discourse.
If you ever ask yourself if you’re crazy, you are not. Crazy people aren’t sane enough to ask themselves if they’re crazy.
So, trust yourself, believe what’s in your heart. Trust your eyes over what you are told. Never listen to the people who tell you that you are crazy, because you are not, you’re being gaslighted.
Sophocles said: "What people believe prevails over the t***h."
And that's what the media are trying to exploit." - Author Unknown

I thought this was interesting br If you've wonder... (show quote)

Does it not sound exactly like what Trump does?

CarryOn

roy wrote:

Does it not sound exactly like what Trump does?

No. See how easy that was, roy ... to answer the question instead of going off on a rant??

Mikeyavelli

roy wrote:

Does it not sound exactly like what Trump does?

No, Trump doesn't have the guile to lie. He says what he's thinking with no intention of misleading anyone. Shock someone, perhaps, but not mislead, which is exactly what the marxist kommiecrats are doing now.

debeda

Mikeyavelli wrote:

Excellent spin on the trendy phrase gaslighting. I knew it meant bullschiff, but I had never known why.
Had a roommate in college who gas lighted, burned himself good doing it.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

ImLogicallyRight

roy wrote:

Does it not sound exactly like what Trump does?

No. More like you and the trolls and the f**e Media and the Democrats

debeda

ImLogicallyRight wrote:

No. More like you and the trolls and the f**e Media and the Democrats

manning5 Loc: Richmond, VA

debeda wrote:

I thought this was interesting
If you've wondered, as I have, exactly what Gaslighting means, take a few minutes to read this thought provoking explanation.

WHAT IS GASLIGHTING?
"The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 stage play Gas Light, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944. In the story, the husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out these changes. The play's title alludes to how the abusive husband slowly dims the gas lights in their home, while pretending nothing has changed, in an effort to make his wife doubt her own perceptions. The wife repeatedly asks her husband to confirm her perceptions about the dimming lights, but in defiance of reality, he keeps insisting that the lights are the same and instead it is she who is going insane.
We are living in a perpetual state of gaslighting. The reality that we are being told by the media is at complete odds with what we are seeing with our own two eyes. And when we question the false reality that we are being presented, or we claim that what we see is that actual reality, we are vilified as r****t or bigots or just plain crazy. You’re not r****t. You’re not crazy. You’re being gaslighted.
New York State has twice as many deaths from C****-** than any other state, and New York has accounted for one fifth of all C****-** deaths, but we are told that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has handled the p******c better than any other governor. But if we support policies of Governors whose states had only a fraction of the infections and deaths as New York, we’re called anti-science and want people to die. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
We see mobs of people l**ting stores, smashing windows, setting cars on fire and burning down buildings, but we are told that these demonstrations are peaceful protests. And when we call this destruction of our cities, r**ts, we are called r****ts. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
We see the major problems destroying many inner-cities are crime; murder, gang violence, drug dealing, drive-by shootings, armed robbery, but we are told that it is not crime, but the police who are the problem in the inner-cities. We are told we must defund the police and remove law enforcement from crime-riddled cities to make them safer. But if we advocate for more policing in cities overrun by crime, we are accused of being w***e s*********ts and r****ts. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
The United States of America accepts more immigrants than any other country in the world. The vast majority of the immigrants are “people of color”, and these immigrants are enjoying freedom and economic opportunity not available to them in their country of origin, but we are told that the United States is the most r****t and oppressive country on the planet, and if we disagree, we are called r****t and xenophobic. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
Capitalist countries are the most prosperous countries in the world The standard of living is the highest in capitalist countries. We see more poor people move up the economic ladder to the middle and even the wealthy class through their effort and ability in capitalist countries than any other economic system in the world, but we are told capitalism is an oppressive system designed to keep people down. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
C*******t countries k**led over 100 million people in the 20th century. C*******t countries strip their citizens of basic human rights, dictate every aspect of their lives, treat their citizens like s***es, and drive their economies into the ground, but we are told that C*******m is the fairest, most equitable, freest and most prosperous economic system in the world. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
The most egregious example of gaslighting is the concept of “white fragility”. You spend your life trying to be a good person, trying to treat people fairly and with respect. You disavow r****m and bigotry in all its forms. You judge people solely on the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. You don’t discriminate based on race or ethnicity. But you are told you are a r****t, not because of something you did or said, but solely because of the color of your skin. You know instinctively that charging someone with r****m because of their skin color is itself r****t. You know that you are not r****t, so you defend yourself and your character, but you are told that your defense of yourself is proof of your r****m. So, we ask ourselves, am I crazy? No, you’re being gaslighted.
Gaslighting has become one of the most pervasive and destructive tactics in American politics. It is the exact opposite of what our political system was meant to be. It deals in lies and psychological coercion, and not the t***h and intellectual discourse.
If you ever ask yourself if you’re crazy, you are not. Crazy people aren’t sane enough to ask themselves if they’re crazy.
So, trust yourself, believe what’s in your heart. Trust your eyes over what you are told. Never listen to the people who tell you that you are crazy, because you are not, you’re being gaslighted.
Sophocles said: "What people believe prevails over the t***h."
And that's what the media are trying to exploit." - Author Unknown

I thought this was interesting br If you've wonder... (show quote)

Very useful info! A T***h or Fact is turned into Falsity, seemingly without any proof. Beware such people! We need a Gaslighter File!

debeda

manning5 wrote:

Very useful info! A T***h or Fact is turned into Falsity, seemingly without any proof. Beware such people! We need a Gaslighter File!

Yes, we do, good thought!!

Mantle

roy wrote:

Does it not sound exactly like what Trump does?

Not even remotely!

debeda

Mantle wrote:

Not even remotely!