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His one job is to not give public health measures a bad image, and he did the exact opposite by gaslighting. It’s amazing how people are defending being gaslighted. Pathetic.

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Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Your understanding of gaslighting isn’t quite right.

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- MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  He started with gaslighting. Then he EVENTUALLY corrected himself in poorly phrased ways that were far too easy to clipchimp his message ib to oblivion.
  
  I do not care how much anyone respects him of doctors. I don’t care what eord yoy think would apply. His job was a communicator, and he failed miserably.
  
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  - Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    
    In a March 8, 2020, interview, Fauci stated that “right now in the United States, people [who are not infected] should not be walking around with masks”, but “if you want to do it, that’s fine”. In the same interview, Fauci said that buying masks “could lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need” them: “When you think masks, you should think of healthcare providers needing them”
    
    Yikes. Apparently he did gaslight people in the time between stating his position and then explaining it.
    
    What really happened was bad actors circulated edited clips of this video, out of context, around Facebook and other social media sites. Lots of folks, apparently you included, ate it up and have been happy customers at the propaganda buffet ever since.
    
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    MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    Do you seriously fail to underatand how communicating in a way that’s not easy to misconstrue, and especially not clipchimp these days, is THE ENTITE POINT of his fucking job, then I am stumped.
    
    You literally do not understand professional communication.
    
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