Reversal

The illustrated concept of a 'reversal', is about circumstances where a bad actor has knowingly engaged in activities that have harmed the target, and when questioned about it either makes claims about being the victim or otherwise seeks to isolate the target.

Some examples might be;

a group of people engaged in some form of CriminalActivity and they are fearful that a person who did not participate in those activities may be heard and that the outcome would be bad for that group of people. So, they seek to ensure that the person who was not involved in the wrong-doing is never able to be heard by anyone.

This in-turn relates also to Dehumanisation and other StrategicHarms, although generally also linked with CommercialExploitation and/or related motivations.

These sorts of SocialAttackVectors are difficult and usually non-trivial to traige; as such part of the mechanisms also relate to TemporalAttacks and objectives that seek to ensure that the costs of engendering some sort of bad outcome for wrong-doers is made to be as high as possible; therein, this is one of many tactical methods employed.