alt Hacker NewsThe "targeted individual" community is mostly people with paranoid delusions. That might not be the right medical term - I don't intend to diagnose people, just to describe what they are experiencing.
Unfortunately, our society is really good about detecting people who are "acting weird" - and some people decide to harass or bully the weird ones. Feeling like you are being stalked makes it very difficult to act "normally" in all circumstances, which increases the odds on any subsequent outing that somebody will notice and act toward you in a way that's undesirable.
It still sucks, what is happening to these people. But it's not a coordinated malicious campaign against them in particular. It's like you say - the outcome of our collective individual decisions. For most of them, there never was any "targeting."
> The "targeted individual" community is mostly people with paranoid delusions.
How did you reach this conclusion ?
> Unfortunately, our society is really good about detecting people who are "acting weird"
Yes, and I can cause you to act wierd, by projecting a false reality onto you.
Alot of what happened to me, happened in the bar my classmate worked at. We were "supposed to be working on music" together, but that was just his cover story. I would go to the bar where he works to talk to him about our project, and he would text his friends/actors to come and act out scripts with me, and in front of me. He controlled the narrative this way. Afterwards, I would reflect upon the events, and how I felt about it.
Just as one example, he had a woman pretend to be interested in me. Then, after investing time in talking to her, taking her to dinner, etc. she publicly humiliated me in the bar. The goal is emotional destablization.
Make you happy, pull the rug, make you sad.
One of the people in charge of county EMS operations aka camera monitoring, happens to be a female, and the bartender had her sit next to me and pretend to be interested in me as well on another occasion. I found her employment info later using google searches to connect the dots.
The terms for people who behave this way are "malignant narcissists" and the tactic is "intermitent reinforcement."