My problem is that they aren't honest with themselves.
They call themselves peaceful, non-violent, loving, and respond with open violence at the slightest provocation.
When that right-wing influencer that got pepper-sprayed on the bus by a random antifa bitch, she justified it because "he wasn't listening to me".
Literally: not listening to these people threaten you is considered violence, and attacking you isn't violence because "you're fine". They will unanimously agree that you should be killed, but then deny that they want to kill you when you literally tell them that they just said they want to kill you.
It's actually not gaslighting (though it comes across that way) because they still convince themselves that they can't be doing bad things because they are good people.
Ah, the "I'm not the kind of person who would do that" therefore "I must not have done that," even though you just did that and I watched you do it dance. Too many cases to count.
Genuinely crazy to watch. They have wild mental blocks in their head.
"I did X. But only bad people do X. I'm a good person so I didn't do X. If anyone asks, I did the letter before Y, which is not X. Alternatively, it's not X when I do it to you, because you deserve it, which means it's good, and thus it can not be X which is bad."
They are preventing cognitive dissonance with a wall of conditioned mental sophistry.
My problem is that they aren't honest with themselves.
They call themselves peaceful, non-violent, loving, and respond with open violence at the slightest provocation.
When that right-wing influencer that got pepper-sprayed on the bus by a random antifa bitch, she justified it because "he wasn't listening to me".
Literally: not listening to these people threaten you is considered violence, and attacking you isn't violence because "you're fine". They will unanimously agree that you should be killed, but then deny that they want to kill you when you literally tell them that they just said they want to kill you.
It's actually not gaslighting (though it comes across that way) because they still convince themselves that they can't be doing bad things because they are good people.
Ah, the "I'm not the kind of person who would do that" therefore "I must not have done that," even though you just did that and I watched you do it dance. Too many cases to count.
Genuinely crazy to watch. They have wild mental blocks in their head.
"I did X. But only bad people do X. I'm a good person so I didn't do X. If anyone asks, I did the letter before Y, which is not X. Alternatively, it's not X when I do it to you, because you deserve it, which means it's good, and thus it can not be X which is bad."
They are preventing cognitive dissonance with a wall of conditioned mental sophistry.
It's a lot easier
Good guy does not do evil, I am good guy, therefore it did not happen.
That's basically it.