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‘Gaslighting’ has been around as a colloquial term since the 60s and isn’t inherently progressive.

Further, refusing to hear an argument because it has a term you don’t like is much more about you than it is the other people.

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Sure, it's about me. I'm a qualified and capable person when it comes to analysis and discourse. What i'm saying is that after seeing the word used frequently, recently, I've found that nearly everybody is either misusing, or overusing it, for internet points. Hence my point about it being a proxy for people who are not arguing in good faith.

> I'm a qualified and capable person when it comes to analysis and discourse.

Are you, uh, entirely certain about that?

if you're making a gaslighting joke: ha-ha. If you are asking a serious epistemological question, then strictly speaking, no. That said, I definitely believe I'm qualified and capable when it comes to discourse, and in general, the feedback I get on my writing is consistent with that.

They're obviously discussing the term in its colloquial context. Further, your rebuttal says more about you than it does the other poster since you're really just arguing that people who don't entertain dogwhistles are failing in some arbitrary regard.

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