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Dr. Gary Bell's Absurd Psychology

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The Power of Shaming

Shaming is the opposite of idealizing someone. It is demonizing someone. A militant, let's say religious person may wait for those who are not religious to say the wrong thing. And this game enables the shamer to dump their anger while looking to all the world like an innocent concerned citizen. People tend to think that when they're projecting the shame on someone and calling them out that the whole world is innocent and that that person is guilty. They love to demonize a certain individual for maybe doing something human which we're all flawed. We all do bad things. WeAll do stupid things. But unfortunately, an individual might want to project their own need for perfection on someone else

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