Ohio Republican U.S. Senator J.D. Vance published a 1203-word diatribe Monday night filled with falsehoods and feeble hypocrisies, demanding that Democrats "tone down the rhetoric" while insisting he opposes "censorship." Critics are accusing the GOP vice presidential nominee of hypocrisy and gaslig...
I thought the same thing. People are obsessed with the word gaslighting.
This seems more like textbook hypocrisy. Person doing thing talks about the harms of others doing that thing.
People love to use it because it makes them the victim.
ā¦ What?
Is this some weird āvictim mentalityā thing?
People love to use it because it got popular and grew to mean more than the original definition to the point where it just got generic to encompass a wide range of things. Itās the same as cringe.
It didnāt grow. People misuse it. Dumb people
By this metric, one can argue that we currently āmisuseā a lot of words in the English language, but the reality is language evolves. Think about how the definition of āniceā has evolved from meaning āignorant or stupidā in the 1300s to itās current meaning.
So gaslighting should change to what? Telling someone they are doing something that they feel they arenāt?
Youāre nice.
Iāve noticed this a lot the last 5-10 years. Nobody uses words wrong anymore itās all ālanguage evolvesā and ālanguage is descriptive not prescriptive.ā
People are just using the word wrong.
Itās just crappy education mixed with ādonāt tell me what to doā mentality. A lot of it is probably social media, where a popular person starts using a word wrong and that quickly spreads and is often used assuming the listener knows about the inside joke.
I was talking with someone IRL who was a very big Twitter and TikTok user. They are also (diagnosed) autistic. It was difficult to follow them because most of what they would say sounded almost meme-like, very accusatory, and rude. I would ask them not to talk to me like that and it was dismissed a āobviously a jokeā or āsarcasmā or ādeadpan.ā
Is this irony? Being gaslit about the word āgaslightā?
No