MCGUIRK: Luigi Mangione and the gaslighting about political violence

MCGUIRK: Luigi Mangione and the gaslighting about political violence

To talk about right wing extremist violence is to construct an alternative reality to the one we actually inhabit. The post MCGUIRK: Luigi Mangione and the gaslighting about political violence appeared first on Gript.

Gaslight. It is a reference to a piece by Patrick Hamilton of the 1930s. At the heart of the plot, a fragile young woman who sees her condition deteriorate as her husband orchestrated events (disappearance of objects, incidents of which he denies the occurrence), which pushes her towards madness. Since then, specialists define gaslighting as a form of psychological manipulation that aims to cast doubt on someone's own perception, until he questi…