The way he says "she was in prison repeatedly trying to kill herself" as if it's some damning flaw against Manning.
Any normal human being with standard psychology, much less a person being persecuted by the state, would fucking break if they were put in the conditions manning was, with repeated, long periods of solitary confinement, not to mention the rampant transphobia I can only assume takes place in an institutional prison environment like that. The only type of person that WOULDN'T want to die in conditions like that is a fucking sociopath freak like Greenwald
I was gonna say that's literally an abuse tactic. Emotional manipulation.
Honestly I'd actually say that this is gaslighting for once, since it's getting her to try and doubt her own experience of Glenn's "friendship". "Actually, I'm the good guy in this scenario" he says, all while spouting off transphobic arguments.
The phrase "one of the only one[s]" is doing a lot of work. Like, sure maybe you had a few other close friends at the time, but really wasn't I one of your closest? Wasn't I exceptionally self-sacrificing?
The way he says "she was in prison repeatedly trying to kill herself" as if it's some damning flaw against Manning.
Any normal human being with standard psychology, much less a person being persecuted by the state, would fucking break if they were put in the conditions manning was, with repeated, long periods of solitary confinement, not to mention the rampant transphobia I can only assume takes place in an institutional prison environment like that. The only type of person that WOULDN'T want to die in conditions like that is a fucking sociopath freak like Greenwald
I was gonna say that's literally an abuse tactic. Emotional manipulation.
Honestly I'd actually say that this is gaslighting for once, since it's getting her to try and doubt her own experience of Glenn's "friendship". "Actually, I'm the good guy in this scenario" he says, all while spouting off transphobic arguments.
The phrase "one of the only one[s]" is doing a lot of work. Like, sure maybe you had a few other close friends at the time, but really wasn't I one of your closest? Wasn't I exceptionally self-sacrificing?
Also 100% a transphobe dog whistle