30 Mar 23
@fmf saidI had to look this up as I’d not heard the term before, it’s a “thing” and quite an interesting thing.
Only posts in which you engage in semantic infiltration, please.
From what I can tell from my brief read-around the term refers to the dilution and even rinsing of meaning of words and phases through their overuse and misuse, correct?
In which case all I can say at this juncture, can you desist with the gaslighting!
30 Mar 23
@divegeester saidBingo! The thread's mission accomplished.
I had to look this up as I’d not heard the term before.
30 Mar 23
@torunn saidNot read it so don’t really know. But I don’t think so, I think it’s more a contemporary social phenomenon.
@divegeester
A bit like George Orwell's '1984'?
@divegeester saidDonald Trump does it habitually. As do his apologists. 'Alternative facts' is one of their more glaring ones.
I had to look this up as I’d not heard the term before, it’s a “thing” and quite an interesting thing.
From what I can tell from my brief read-around the term refers to the dilution and even rinsing of meaning of words and phases through their overuse and misuse, correct?
In which case all I can say at this juncture, can you desist with the gaslighting!
As Senator Pat Moynihan said, people are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. Once you sow the seeds of doubt about what a fact is, you can twist any fact around to mean whatever you want it to and deny responsibility for it because you've made it seem to be objectively true.
'Once zee rockets are up, who cares where zey come down -- not my responsibility ' says Werner von Braun. And exactly analogously, Trump denies responsibility for inciting sedition on Jan. 6, because he had deliberately sown the seeds of doubt well in advance ...