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minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down4·1 year agoThe concept of gaslighting has been diluted beyond recognition. It used to mean lying to someone with the goal of making them question their own sanity. Now, it just means lying.
minus-squareUntouchedWagons@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoYou’re just making that up.
minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoHow can you be sure I’m making it up when your judgment is so unreliable?
minus-squareno banana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agoYou shouldn’t concern yourself with that, you know that you have a tendency to ask too many meaningless questions.
minus-squareno banana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoRight. If the advice was “tell yourself it’s not happening and you’re just being paranoid” I’d think it was gaslighting yourself.
The concept of gaslighting has been diluted beyond recognition. It used to mean lying to someone with the goal of making them question their own sanity. Now, it just means lying.
You’re just making that up.
How can you be sure I’m making it up when your judgment is so unreliable?
You shouldn’t concern yourself with that, you know that you have a tendency to ask too many meaningless questions.
Right. If the advice was “tell yourself it’s not happening and you’re just being paranoid” I’d think it was gaslighting yourself.