Seriously, this is fun. It gets amazing reactions out of people. Try it.
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Gaslight implies that they are correct. The term comes from a woman turning off her gaslight, and leaving. A man turns it back on. Then when she returns, she is confused to see it on, and he convinces her that it was always on. Crazy-making. The book 1984’s “we have always been at war with East Asia” fits this description. The media pretending they never called Trump racist for banning travel from China, fits this description.
What you are doing is trolling them. I can understand the confusion because the left misuses the word all the time. They do the same with narcissist, confusing confidence for narcissism.
Unless you want to subtly give them credit on their stance concerning vaccines, don’t use gaslight. It’s a validating term for them. This is trolling, or pranking. Maybe it’s they thought they were being responsible, and now you show they were irresponsible the whole time. Gaslight implies that they really are responsible and you are tricking them.
I understood what gaslighting was, but not this well. Thank you for this post.
Thanks! I hoped I wasn’t being annoying. I’m glad it helped you :D