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A form of gaslighting where the perpetrator invokes legal frameworks to justify policies, laws, or votes that are ethically indefensible, while dismissing the target’s moral or human‑rights concerns as legally naive. Legalsplaining is used to defend anti‑Palestinian laws, anti‑communist statutes, or to explain why a country voted against or abstained from the UN resolution naming the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity. It positions the speaker as the realist who understands “how law works,” while framing the target as emotional or ignorant.
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