Turning people against you
Isolating you, using other people, and controlling who hears what. 19 tactics on this line, in the order the guide walks them.
Open this line in the guideEvery tactic on this line, with look-alikes on other lines.P 01Smear CampaignSomeone spreads distorted or false stories about a person to people who matter to them, so they are doubted, shunned or not believed…P 02Flying MonkeysFriends, relatives or colleagues are drawn in to pass on pressure or criticism, or to report back, for a person who stays out of the room.P 03TriangulationPulling a third person, real or made up, into a disagreement between two people, so their supposed opinion wins the argument.P 04Group ConsolidationPublicly punishing one person harshly enough that everyone watching learns what disagreement will cost them.P 05Silent CoalitionsA group leaving one person out through many small, deniable slights, so no single clear incident ever stands out.P 06OstracismA person is left out of invitations, conversations, decisions or information until they end up on the outside of their own group.P 07MobbingA group harasses one person for weeks or months, most often at work or in a community, and wears down their standing.P 08ScapegoatingBlame for a failure shared by many lands on one person, who pays the price while the real cause stays untouched.P 09Labeling as Identity WarfareOthers pin a fixed defect label on a person, such as ‘the difficult one’, until everything that person does is read through it.P 10Reputation LaunderingRetelling a damaging or flattering claim about a person so often that it loses its source and is treated as common knowledge.P 11Punishment by ProxyTrouble, coldness or harm lands on someone you care about after a disagreement, so you carry the cost without any direct attack on you.P 12Stochastic Harassment DirectionSomeone keeps describing a named person in angry terms to a big audience, so some listeners predictably harass them although nobody gives…P 13Pile-OnsMany people pile criticism onto one person in a short span, so the sheer volume becomes the problem.P 14Golden Child ElevationOne family member is held up as the model of excellence, and that standard is used to measure everyone else and find them short.P 15Social Proof PressureSomeone claims that everyone else already agrees, to push one person into going along, whether or not the agreement is real.P 16Divide and ConquerDistance or distrust is created between people who might otherwise support one another, so they do not compare notes or act together.P 17Interruption PatternsThe same people keep getting cut off in group conversations, so their points never get finished while other speakers finish theirs freely.P 18Credibility TheftCredibility theft casts doubt on someone’s reliability in advance, so whatever they later report is heard as doubtful before they have…P 19Priming / Narrative SeedingGiving someone an interpretation of a person or event before they see it themselves, so what they notice afterward fits that view.