With the new Fred Hampton and Black Panthers movie coming out next week, I just want to get ahead as black liberals in media intend to white wash black history for their liberal masters:
why is it that there always has to be some sort of explanation for antiblackness? why is it that whenever black people rightfully express disenchantment with people expecting us to champion their causes right after being gross as hell to us we’re called divisive? why is the onus always on us to be the bigger person and not on them to treat us with respect?
why is it that whenever we talk about this on our own damn blogs, non black people come onto our posts then completely derail the main point to try and make us feel bad for feeling angry?
ok this is important to me. gaslighting is not a synonym for lying. it’s a type of lying. if someone says to you “the sky is green,” that’s a lie. if you say “the sky is blue” and they respond “no, it’s green, you’re wrong, your eyes are playing tricks on you” THAT’S gaslighting. the crucial requirement is that they try to convince you not only that you are wrong but that you shouldn’t trust your own senses. that you’re imagining something/hallucinating/dreaming. the abuser is trying to make themselves more of an authority on reality than your own mind, often with the goal of making you reliant on them to tell you “truth” from “fiction.”
the gaslighter has to know they are giving you incorrect information. they have to know, on some level, that they are manipulating you. If someone is giving you bad information because THEY have bad information, because their eyes and ears and perception can’t be trusted, it’s important to know that. That’s not gaslighting, it’s just the other person being wrong. It does happen.
