1. Gaslighting is when someone makes you doubt your sanity. If you’re not careful gaslighters will make you feel guilty for questioning your abusers. They will use false equivalence saying “you’re just like ZANU PF” just for legitimately doubting & questioning your abusers.
2. By so doing, they turn you from victim to perpetrator. Because if you’re “just like ZANU PF” how can you be a victim? Your reality as a victim is turned upside down. You and your abuser are placed at par. All this because gaslighters want you to embrace your abuser.
3. Gaslighters especially like false equivalence. They present it as facts: so & so is also doing this & that stripping it of all contextual nuance. It’s subtle but it can be very effective. You can spot gaslighting coming when a guilty party says “but you have also done …”
4. People have a legitimate right to question their tormentors. Don’t make them feel bad for exercising their rights. It doesn’t make them ZANU PF. If it makes them gatekeepers it’s because they have seen hyenas devour their goats in broad daylight & they’re now more careful.
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