White(House) Washing

In my last post, "28 Days Later," I referenced the typical JM play of hiding, editing, and deleting information. It is now early May and MW is deleting posts from his blog. No one who knows this JM-style tactic is surprised by this. Luckily, those of us who MW would refer to as a "shadow cabal," are tech-savvy (and likely paranoid) enough to have copy-pasted, screenshot, and archived the majority of his blog posts.  


Here is the list, both my links and archives: 
Archive of main page, May 8, 2018 


*note: posts in pink below have been deleted from MW's blog as of May 8, 2018*

April 6: 28 Articles in 28 Days 
April 7: 10 Days to Wicked Faire
April 8: 10 Days part 2 / Archive
April 9: 10 Days part 3 / Archive
April 10: You keep using that word / Doxxing, Silencing, and Gaslighting
April 11: Mistakes in PR / How Not to PR
April 11: World's Smallest Violin / Hurt
April 13: Knowledge is Power / How Could You Not Have Known?
April 14th and 15th: Off Topic / Placing Your Thumb In Front of the Sun
April 16th: Q and maybe A / Q&A 1
April 17th: Do liars deserve loyalty? / The Sin of Loyalty
April 19th: I Was Wrong, And I Am Sorry
April 22nd: WTF / Defining Consent Violation, Sexual Assault, and Rape
April 24th: Edits / Did You Change That?
April 25th: Where he could apologize but doesnt / Don't Invade Belgium
May 1st: Where he doesn't realize that he is deserving of anyone's dislike / Stop F**king Talking
May 2nd: Name calling / Steampunk Worlds Fair: The Way It Could Have Been

I sincerely hope this is helpful for those following along this saga. I would like to point out just how interesting the three posts that MW has deleted are, especially the one from April 22nd. 


Manipulative abuse
Minimisation may take the form of a manipulative technique:

• observed in abusers and manipulators to downplay their misdemeanors when confronted with irrefutable facts.[3][4]
• observed in abusers and manipulators to downplay positive attributes (talents and skills etc.) of their victims.[5]
• 'Typical psychological defences exhibited by stalkers and guilty criminal suspects include denial, rationalisation, minimisation and projection of blame onto the victim'.[6]

A variation on minimisation as a manipulative technique is "claiming altruistic motives" such as saying "I don't do this because I am selfish, and for gain, but because I am a socially aware person interested in the common good"

Cognitive distortion
Minimisation may also take the form of cognitive distortion:

• that avoids acknowledging and dealing with negative emotions by reducing the importance and impact of events that give rise to those emotions.
• that avoids conscious confrontation with the negative impacts of one's behavior on others by reducing the perception of such impacts.
• that avoids interpersonal confrontation by reducing the perception of the impact of others' behavior on oneself.

Examples

• saying that a taunt or insult was only a joke
• a customer receiving a response to a complaint to a company for poor service being told that complaints like his from other customers were very rare when in fact they are common
• suggesting that there are just a few bad apples or rogues in an organisation when in reality problems are widespread and systemic