How to Coach Yourself and Others Beware of Manipulation | Page 125

to visit sadism and aggression on someone who has become an acceptable target. Manipulators
instrumentally manipulate the anger of some in the audience to have a target they can hate; and to see
someone brought down.
Justification – all reasonable people would agree that what was done by the perpetrators was morally
wrong. We are standing up for what is right in a way every right-thinking person would agree with.
QUESTIONS:
Many attacks are disguised as questions, which give various degrees of evidence of their real purpose.
Questions may appear totally innocent, seeking only information or they can contain fairly obvious
accusations/ innuendoes inside them. Asking about accusations and allegations is a favorite technique.
The manipulator gets to repeat the alleg F