Gaslighting is defined as a form of psychological abuse in which information is distorted, selectively omitted to favor the abuser, or simply invented with the intent to make the victim doubt their own memory, perception, and sanity.[2] Cases of gaslighting can range from the abuser simply denying that previous abusive incidents have ever occurred, to the abuser staging bizarre events with the intent to disorient the victim.
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Ideologically bigoted individuals are significantly more likely to engage in fallacious thought patterns, including forms that can be classified as abuse, such as "gaslighting." Those on the "right" and those on the "left" are both more prone to these flaws. However, at least according to my personal experience, both from experience and observation, this type of fallacious thinking and psychologically abusive behavior seems to be more common, even characteristic of being practiced by so-called "left-wing" individuals, perhaps as a kind of retreat strategy in confrontations or debates, especially if there is an "accusatory tone" from the other part who is debating. In a situation like this, the "progressive" fanatic denies "everything", as if he were instructed by his lawyer to deny any participation or cover-up of crimes, in this case, of legitimate conspiracies euphemistically called "cultural or social changes". To deny that ideological indoctrination or "left-wing" brainwashing is taking place in the media, in education and even in the government. To deny that they are imposing their ideological manuals as public policies and that their main objective is not the practice of justice, if they are intrinsically unjust, but of cultural and political hegemony, of absolute power. To deny that so-called "socialist" countries are cruel dictatorships that subject their populations to censorship and misery. To deny that it is supporting or even actively participating in the promotion of ideologies that advocate the political and structural systematization of "reverse" racism, primarily against white populations of European origin, which are literally promoting their extinction (in their most racially purified forms that are very recessive), supporting mass immigration to their countries, self-hatred or collective and historical guilt, denial of the existence of human races and their differences and racial mixing. To deny that it supports or promotes the distortion of basic knowledge (such as the biological reality of human sexuality), made possible by its increasingly totalitarian dominance in academia. To deny that it supports or promotes the censorship of its opponents. To deny that it presents a double moral standard, evidenced by an extreme selectivity of indignation. From denying that it covers up groups and individuals who actively participate in their conspiracies, to creating specific terms that deny that they are promoting massively orchestrated conspiratorial assaults to progressively occupy spaces of power and remodel societies according to their truly shady objectives...
Of course, as was said before, it is not only those on the "left" who practice forms of psychological abuse and fallacious thinking. But the practice of gaslighting, again, seems to be much more characteristic of this "side".
