“There’s a form of mental torture called “gaslighting,” its name taken from a play in which a man convinces his wife that the gas lights in their home she sees brightening and dimming are, in fact, maintaining a steady glow. His ultimate goal is to drive her into a mental institution and take all her money, and soon the woman ends up in an argument with herself about whether she’s losing her mind. American race relations have a similar narrative: An entire set of minorities confident that the everyday slights they’re seeing are real and hurtful, and an entire set of other people assuring them that they’re wrong.” - via tumblr (example: when young black youths are EXECUTED and falsely imprisoned by institutionalized racist systems that have existed since slavery and other ethnic poc groups are then conditioned by media to believing that blacks are over reacting. Then when it happens to THEIR YOUTH those same ethnic poc groups are then embarrassed and do not seek help from the african american communities. DIVIDE AND CONQUER, GASLIGHTING EFFECTIVELY APPLIED.
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 04:49:39 +0000
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