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- verb UK Present participle of
gaslight .
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"gaslighting" - "an insidious set of psychological manipulations" that have "invaded our media, infiltrated our churches, and attacked our most basic free institutions."
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This sounds more like "gaslighting" of the highest (lowest?) order.
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If anyone is "gaslighting" it would be you with your personal attacks on Mr. Northam and nonsensical postings on everything else.
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These people are poor excuses for human beings, who take great pleasure in "gaslighting" legitimate posters and readers by veiling their lies under various online identities.
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This sounds more like "gaslighting" of the highest (lowest?) order.
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These people are poor excuses for human beings, who take great pleasure in "gaslighting" legitimate posters and readers by veiling their lies under various online identities.
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These people are poor excuses for human beings, who take great pleasure in "gaslighting" legitimate posters and readers by veiling their lies under various online identities.
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If anyone is "gaslighting" it would be you with your personal attacks on Mr. Northam and nonsensical postings on everything else.
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If anyone is "gaslighting" it would be you with your personal attacks on Mr. Northam and nonsensical postings on everything else.
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This sounds more like "gaslighting" of the highest (lowest?) order.
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In broad terms, as CNN contributor Frida Ghitis put it in her analysis of President Donald Trump's own manipulative behavior, gaslighting is "tactical tampering with the truth."
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deinonychus commented on the word gaslighting
Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented with the intent of making a victim doubt his or her own memory and perception. It may simply be the denial by an abuser that previous abusive incidents ever occurred, or it could be the staging of bizarre events by the abuser with the intention of disorienting the victim.
The term "gaslighting" comes from the play Gas Light and its film adaptations. In those works a character uses a variety of tricks, including turning the gas lamps lower than normal, to convince his spouse that she is crazy. Since then it became a colloquial expression which has now also been used in clinical and research literature
(Wikipedia)
December 31, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word gaslighting
I'm reminded of the conversation over on gasometer for some reason.
December 31, 2011
aergia commented on the word gaslighting
Psychological Abuse
May 2, 2017