I’m not really sure, either. Do some Lemmy clients curate what’s in your feed based upon votes? If that’s the case, I can see people trying to manipulate that…

No, really the best example I can give is the one I’ve already made about the racist neighbor. If there isn’t a term for this sort of behavior, there needs to be one.

Both of those terms are accurate to what I’m describing. It’s like racist neighbors finding everything wrong with the upkeep of your house or how much noise your kids are making just to cover up the fact that they don’t want to live next to someone of color.

I’ve not heard of ‘sanewashing’ before. That’s an interesting one. It may be ‘gaslighting’, but I’m not sure. A fictional example of what I’m talking about would be the guy who dates a woman to get closer to her sister. Or Homer Simpson buying a bowling ball for Marge Simpson’s birthday and saying ‘Well, if you don’t want it, I know someone who could really, really use it…’ :D