Posted on 01/25/2021 2:39:33 AM PST by sodpoodle
To call it “gaslighting” is inadequate unless you understand all you would need to know in order to not have it go over your head or somebody else’s. Apparently, this oversimplification of how a seriously undesirable cultural phenomenon is perceived has caused enough confusion already and is not as benign as it sounds if all you use to identify it is a single word taken from the title of an old Hollywood movie.
Gotta watch the movie, “Gaslight”. No need for a thesis on the subject.
Thank you so much for posting this.
I hear the term frequently, but these examples solidified in my mind exactly what is going on.
I will now refer to the msm as “The Gaslighters”, or “The Gaslighting Media”. That’s exactly what they are doing.
I also shared it on my fb page.
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 dimming of the gas lights was not because the husband was intentionally deluding the wife.
***SPOILER*** The dimming was caused by the husband going into the attic to search the belongings of his wife's deceased aunt for lost jewels, and when he turns up the gas light in the attic it dims the lights in the rest of the house. When she mentions the dimming lights when he's unexplainably away, he concocts the rest to convince her that she's going mad.
-PJ
I always learn something from my friend’s e-mails - and I thought I knew everything:)
God bless.
It’s an excellent read. Not too long, and the examples really resonate. I posted it over on the Trump Train thread.
It might be easy to call Walter Cronkite's labeling of the Tet Offensive as the point when America "lost" the Vietnam War gaslighting, but since there were tightly controlled images by only three networks that limited what the public saw, it's not the same to say they were ignoring their "lying eyes." The people were being propagandized, not gaslighted.
Move forward to the 2000s, and we have Chuck Schumer calling left-wing judges "mainstream" and mainstream judges "right wing," as an attempt to introduce ideology into the Senate confirmation process to block George W Bush's nominees. This was gaslighting, as the people could clearly see for themselves the judges, their writings, and their judicial history. However, Schumer's repeated calling the left-wing as "mainstream" was gaslighting people.
Today, we have the absurdity of the MSM denying things they wrote in their own newspapers that are still easily accessible on the internet. We have the MSM scrubbing videos and rewriting old stories to conform to today's "facts," and insisting that it was always so. That's gaslighting.
-PJ
Thank you sod. Excellent.
Bttt
Was talking to GOPSter about this recently. One of the tools in the lying Stalinazi Satanist media propagandists’ arsenal.
Thanks for the background. To remember the meaning I’ve found it helpful to call it the “you’re crazy” treatment.
An ongoing observation of mine since I was in my early 20s-...Some people “gaslight” themselves. They listen and hear something other than what is really being said and mistake the thoughts of the person they are conversing with for being less than well-meaning. I admit that it’s happened to me that way but only when I was really depressed and feeling down and out. I was ripe for the picking and I could have sworn that there were people were trying “gaslight” me but I didn’t know what to call it back then. Eventually, things got a whole lot better and once I had it figured out I could “gaslight” with the worst of them. However, I realized that my freedom of speech trumps any perceived notion of a right to not be confused by what other people say. I will not be held responsible for the wild assumptions made by people who might claim that gaslighting or attempted gaslighting was perpetrated against them.
We gaslight ourselves fretting over racism
By our interpretations the entire world is racist and it is to be honest
Once you deprogram that slavery and racism are the original sins of rhe white race.....then you are truly free
So many woods just can’t let go of that
It’s like they need the guiit ...or shame
Very well done,
Bmk for later
My wife asked if we were finally going to get round to watching Gaslight...
I had to remind her we’d already seen it and she loved it.
(I was missing the giggles from your post so, I just had to...)
“I had to remind her we’d already seen it and she loved it.”
LOL! You’re bad.
We all have some innate amount of bigotry.
It is a “survival” tactic.
Do you continue to walk toward a mother bear and her cubs?
Bigotry is not illegal but /protected/ by the 1st Amendment.
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