As Houston Rockets fans, we’re all pretty familiar with the term “gaslighting,” which is when a person attempts to manipulate you into questioning your reality and/or your sanity. We’ve been pointing out that there’s an obvious anti-Rockets, and in particular, an anti-James Harden bias, only to have some in the mainstream sports media and knuckledraggers on Twitter tell us that we’re crazy, we’re playing the victim, or that we’re all simply a bunch of whiners, criers and complainers.
“No,” we’re told (and I’m paraphrasing), “no one out there is intentionally hating on James Harden, it’s just that Rockets fans enjoy a persecution complex.