Moreover, every single rough sleeper we spoke with Wednesday said they were not offered any alternative housing arrangements whatsoever. Jonsson is the navigator responsible for the Spring Garden area, and clearly he was not involved in the city’s eviction on Wednesday, although he did rush back to Halifax afterwards to try to provide what support he could. The raids on the park happened when one of those two, Eric Jonsson, was on his honeymoon and out of town. Reality: There are two navigators who do outreach to people on the street and work to connect them to social services, including getting them to hotels and housing when they’re available. Gaslight: “We’ve been working with the people involved through our navigators and through provincial support workers to provide options for them and make sure that they had better options than living in a tent or a shed that nobody should have to live in.” The day started with Mayor Mike Savage being interviewed by Portia Clark on CBC’s Information Morning. Halifax Mayor Mike Savage speaks at a funding announcement in July 2021.
Thursday, a parade of three powerful men gaslit us all, creating a false narrative to justify the use of violence.
Take, for example, what happened after the police raids on homeless encampments in Halifax Wednesday. It’s used by politicians everywhere to explain away inconvenient truths, to manipulate the public. Gaslighting isn’t limited to American extremists. Hence, Trump could say without batting an eye that Hilary Clinton invented birtherism the election was stolen by a conspiracy of brown people, tech companies, and Republican-appointed judges and the people who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 were really antifa disguising themselves with MAGA hats. But with the rise of Donald Trump, it jumped into popular culture to explain the political upturning of reality, where up becomes down, black becomes white, and where facts are invented out of whole cloth to fit a counternarrative, not connected to the real world around us. “Gaslighting” has long been used by psychiatrists and therapists to explain dynamics in interpersonal relationships. It is the classic story of toxic masculinity: A man manipulates and emotionally abuses his wife, inventing false narratives (that a letter she held in her hands and read never existed, for instance), altering her physical world (secretly turning the gas lights on and off), and belittling her quite accurate understanding of the real world she occupies until she starts questioning her own sanity.
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