• vaccinationviablowdart@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    This is textbook gaslighting.

    Well if I spent 5 minutes instead of 0.5 minutes I might be able to find an actual text book but I think APA Dictionary of Psychology: “gaslight” is a pretty good definition:

    to manipulate another person into doubting their perceptions, experiences, or understanding of events.

    And it provides an example, from the original source of the term:

    a wife is nearly driven to insanity by the deceptions of her husband

    It is tres shitty to minimize actual abusive behavior by applying a term associated with intimate partner violence it to this minor thing which is someone posting a comment on some software he works at using an account which goes to zero effort to obfuscate that.

    In penance I decree you should watch the movie https://archive.org/details/gaslight-1944 and tell me if it’s any good, I haven’t seen it yet.

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      4 days ago

      It’s about on par with other movies of the era. If you like those, you’ll like Gaslight.

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        4 days ago

        I seem to have replied to the main thread instead of the specific comment that mentioned gaslight. Didn’t you notice a complete no sequitur?

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          4 days ago

          It must have been under the one you meant to reply to, because I swear I saw it as a reply. (Boost sometimes doesn’t display reply indents properly anyway.)

          Or are you gaslighting me right now?