https://www.tiktok.com/@medievalfilthcauldrons/video/7277787063708093739
I won’t try to express the outrage and sadness because I don’t know how and I assume you reading this already know for yourself.
But if someone is a psychologist I’d really like to understand what this behavior is.
I think maybe it’s not psychopathic. Is this abnormal psychology, such as a personaliry disorder? Is it shock, temporary covering for guilt or trauma? Dehumanization? Is this like the psychology of Nazi concentration camp workers?
Even when I condemn abhorrent attitudes and behavior like this, I usually have some kind of concept of what is going on. But this is just incomprehensible to me.
Nonetheless, I don’t think it’s unfamiliar. It rings true of group male behavior I remember from my childhood (I didn’t share it, but I saw it). A kind of bonding over a shared agreement to gaslight each other to decide that an awful thing they had done really wasn’t of consequence. Usually there is a ringleader trying to get submission from followers. Like if he pushed a kid down and the kid broke a bone, the perpetrator would try to get everyone to agree it wasn’t a big deal and the victim was/is a wuss.
I suppose it’s an attempt to bully the narrative on a social consensus condemnation into a mitigating direction, because such judgments are only “true” if they are delivered to be. Remind me of Don Draper saying to Peggy “It will shock you how much it never happened”.
Is that what this is? A fearful or narcissistic effort to avoid the truth?