A toxic history of gaslighting: Past and present
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Gaslighting is used to describe many ways of questioning people’s experiences, whether it’s a president railing about “fake news,” or someone at work telling you you’re taking a racist or sexist comment “too seriously.”
In 2018, the Oxford English Dictionary named “toxic” its word of the year. Unsurprising given the political climate at the time: Trump was President, Britain was Brexiting, and tech companies were under intense scrutiny for their role in enabling toxic environments online.