Brainwashers

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To get a person or group to believe things without the use of their critical and independent thinking skills. Urban Dictionary

Brainwash – To persuade and train someone into adopting certain beliefs that are usually irrational, questionable, and doubtful. These beliefs are often outside the norm and goes against commonsense. Urban Dictionary

(adj.; n. brainwashing) Coerced or manipulated by any number of social, intellectual, and psycho-emotional methods, to do or accept things you wouldn't have otherwise. It is often an extension of common, everyday persuasion, but goes beyond it to control the way a person thinks and responds in general to limit critical thinking itself, not simply selling a single idea or decision based on presenting information and choice. The goal of brainwashing is the internalization of the (unrealized or unrecognized) abusive control to where you believe and feel it necessary to enforce someone else's will as your own, unaware of your lack of free will, and usually with an illusion of stronger free will. It goes beyond Stockholm Syndrome by having fear or doubt with regards to criticism about the authority (person, group and/or system of belief). Rationalizations are given to you to explain away anything contradictory. The common use of the term implies a blind spot where you cannot see an opposing point of view because of some control or conditioning. Contradictory facts cannot be processed (mental scotomization), or are warped to fit into a form that no longer contradicts (cognitive dissonance). Unlike simple indoctrination into many religions or philosophies, brainwashing goes beyond education to include reasons and/or phobias why questioning or turning away from it is wrong and people who do not agree are deceived, evil, or just wrong. Some religious and other groups cross the line; many do not. People can brainwash themselves by being closed-minded, but can be brainwashed intentionally or unintentionally in any abusive relationship, such as a totally dominating partner, parent, or even a company or organization. This is the primary common use of the word to describe the control process of a cult. However, brainwashing takes diverse forms in terms of tools and degrees of different kinds of control, so saying a group doesn't do brainwashing because of dissimilarities with another group (dressing all the same, or chanting for hours, for example) is invalid -- and a typical defense by people in a cult. In fact, brainwashing can mean closing the mind when it comes to specific things and not others. Some cults disguise their control by encouraging you to believe anything you want, including staying in your current religion, so long as it does not interfere and you do not question and commit to the group's agenda. The problem is that the word can be meant or taken as an insult instead of a particular psychological phenomenon. It may be an excuse to explain why someone cannot see your own point of view. Therefore, people who are brainwashed are likely to accuse others and even the whole surrounding society of being brainwashed. Brainwashing is also a term that cults use to attack religions in general (many of which may have cult characteristics in varying degrees as a natural development tendency of any social group), or religions that are different in basic dogma from their own. Some anti-cult organizations have a cultic mentality themselves and therefore have made it difficult for other groups to advocate and educate about the real psychopathology of brainwashing. In other words, people fall back on the archaic denotation of the word "cult" as "religious sect" and associate brainwashing in terms of belief and not manipulation and control, or blur the distinction between brainwashing and educative indoctrination. In the end things get really sticky, as modern cults have perfected various techniques and tactics, the most ironic of which is to play the role of an organization promoting free will and fighting against what they conveniently define as brainwashing to not include their own mind control. A common variation of this tactic is declaring the term brainwashing meaningless or even an offensive form of bigotry against religious freedom -- the ultimate and "politically correct" way to silence critics by putting themselves in the role of victim instead of the society they are themselves victimizing. Urban Dictionary

To make people foolishly believe something that is not true. Urban Dictionary

Controlling a person mentally, they believe everything you tell them. Telling them things they like to hear or doing things they like. Urban Dictionary

See: television A virus that seeks to manipulate its host by means of infected data. Urban Dictionary

To make people foolishly believe something that is not true. Urban Dictionary

What the goverment is doing to us. Techniques of brainwashing ur t.v sets, school and mags. Urban Dictionary

See fundamentalism Urban Dictionary

What religious parents do to their children. Urban Dictionary

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The word "brainwashers" in example sentences

When university professors speak this way about Christianity they are labeled as Liberal Mafia, brainwashers of our youth, iconoclasts set on destroying American values, and other ridiculous things. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and allowed the rise of a religious component to further alienate Egyptians from liberal and democratic thinking. ❋ Andre Aciman (2011)

A small article in The Mail shows the depths to which the Man Made Climate Change brainwashers will stoop to. ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

Among his favorite ideas is turning urban education over to the KIPP-inspired brainwashers and prison guards trained in the happy talk pop psychology of CIA advisor, Dr. Martin Seligman, whose mind fix for the poor is viewed as the affordable solution to a social fix that is much too expensive for the richest men in the world to consider. ❋ Jim Horn (2009)

Maybe you, too, grew up with television images of people who were “brainwashed,” who were like living zombies and did whatever their brainwashers told them to do. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What about the frontline brainwashers, er, instructors of these anti-cultural cults? ❋ Jim Horn (2009)

If that is what you were taught (per the allusions in this topic's resolution), you might consider suing your brainwashers. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The brainwashers of 'Aber' surely did a job on you! ❋ Unknown (2008)

In fact both the Trojan Horse (still shilling away at one of your Ivy League brainwashers) and his soviet cargo, pretending he can help solve the Wall Street crisis (presumably by helping to get Obama elected with his cargo). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Maybe those North Viet Namese were better brainwashers than it is polite to say. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Keep listening to the brainwashers though … … things should be getting better for the rightwing movement any day now. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I just fall in line with the brainwashers, or use “Jedi mind tricks” to belittle people who disagree with me. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The right accuses activists of being communistic brainwashers and the left accuse right wing activists of being conspiratorially fascist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Do you think these Texas brainwashers can find a record that no Latinos fought on our side during Alamo? ❋ Robbyr2 (2010)

The [Heaven's Gate cult] was brainwashed into believing they could [transform] into [extraterrestrial beings]. ❋ Nekaterasemandoogehtlla (2021)

A [cult leader] had successfully [brainwashed] his followers into believing that killing innocent lives outside their belief is a noble and [heroic] act. ❋ NobleGentleman (2019)

How can you defend him after the way he controls your life? You must be brainwashed. You must be pretty brainwashed to take out a second mortgage to attend those "self-help" courses. You only talk about the group you belong to and stopped doing the things you love and spending time with your friends. I know you seem very happy, but we're concerned that you might be brainwashed. Me miss the you that we know. If you knew you were brainwashed, you wouldn't have been brainwashed very well, right? Trust those who care about you that something is wrong. I'm not brainwashed! You just don't know the group like I do! They are the most loving, sane, spiritual people I will ever meet and all they want is to save the world! We know things that humanity will only some day understand like we do. You're the ones who are brainwashed, so I'm not allowed to talk to you anymore because you are interfering with my life progress! ... [I mean it's] MY choice and it's for my own good since you wont support me in this. Besides, I have to get ready for [a mandatory] [cool aid] party next week when the [comet] comes by. Have any clean [pruning] [shears] and a [band-aid]? ❋ Ken JP Stuczynski (2008)

[Casey] has been [brainwashing] [Sheri], Greg, John, Becky, Billy, and Michael into thinking I'm a bear when I'm not. ❋ Karen Stickney (2006)

I [brainwashed] [my girlfriend], I [told] her what she likes to hear. ❋ Kai Marie (2022)

The [television] [brainwashed] [little Johnny] to blindly accept what he sees. ❋ JoeJoeJoe (2004)

Millions of people around the world were [brainwashed] in believing they were [bad people]. Brainwash is evil and [destructive]. ❋ PseudonymA (2013)

kid: Why does the govrment do anything it wants? [Teacher]: stop fucking [asking] [questions] ❋ May (2004)

[Religious] [fundamentalism] can brainwash kids at an [early] age. ❋ Adelbert Steiner (2008)

Lets [brainwash] our child to be Christian. But we're going to [call it in] [indoctrination]. ❋ Science_ftw (2010)

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