Misdirection Play, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Claire Jack suggests that many tactics we see in our political you-can-hardly-call-it discourse are “emotional and manipulative tactics” that amount to gaslighting on a societal level. An excerpt, referring to the current reaction to the police murder of George Floyd (emphasis; follow the link for the rest.
By the way, the last sentence above captures succinctly why those monuments were erected in the first place.