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How to survive a lynching
- jkot 10y agoPhysical lynching is relatively common in India. And online lynch mob is responsible for a few suicides in western countries as well.
- EnFinlay 10y agoI would say that "online lynch mob" is not possible. There's a big difference between being consistently and doggedly harassed, and being physically murdered by a vicious mob.
- seangrant 10y agoBy term "physical lynching" doesn't make sense. The act of lynching is physical in and of itself.
- dragonwriter 10y agoIts redundant, but that doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.
- toxik 10y agoRight, it's redundant. Like this comment.
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- kkarakk 10y agowhat about the tangible impact being doxxed or outed publicly online can have on your career and relationships-whether justly or unjustly? are buzzfeed authors the new keepers of morality and justice?
- PavlovsCat 10y agoYeah, I even heard people in an online lynch mob say that. Alas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching > Lynching is an extrajudicial punishment by an informal group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged transgressor, or to intimidate a minority group. It is an extreme form of informal group social control such as charivari, skimmington, riding the rail, and tarring and feathering, but with a drift toward the public spectacle.
- mc32 10y agoIt is and it's a horrible thing to inflict on others. Innocent as well as guilty. It's savage. It's worse than ordinary murder --it has the imprimatur of the crowd (and the host society at large). Yes it does happen with frequency in some places, yet it is a terrible reminder of how savage we humans can be to one another.
- x3n0ph3n3 10y agoAre we relying on BuzzFeed for serious journalism now?
- function_seven 10y agoDid you read the piece at all before posting?
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- x3n0ph3n3 10y agoI regularly reject known-bad sources. BuzzFeed, DailyMail, and RT are among the list. It costs too much to filter out the bullshit from these sources, so I either find a better source or ignore it.
- function_seven 10y agoOk, for future reference: If you see a Buzzfeed article submitted here, and on the front page, it's a good bet that it's not a bullshit article. Buzzfeed is strange that way.
- J_Darnley 10y agoNot a BS article? It is Buzzfeed, they do nothing else.
- function_seven 10y agoWhat was BS about this article?
- quesera 10y agoFine. But your filter is broken. Surely you've seen sources go bad, and no longer be worth your attention. The reverse is more rare, but not impossible. It feels wrong to be defending BuzzFeed, but your dogmatic non-engagement of new information is even more offensive to me. Vice is also capable of a decent article nowadays. Keep your eyes and mind open.
- jacquesm 10y agoIf not for that one lady speaking up the story would have ended quite differently. Mobs are very scary. Still, if not for recognizing his customer he'd have gone through with the robbery and he did give the gun back to the murderers. Strange how the claim of 'rape' apparently is what set off the crowd to lynch, but the murder apparently was not nearly seen as being as heavy. Surreal how there are people smiling in that photograph with the corpses hanging.
- paxcoder 10y agoI reckon that wasn't any ordinary lady. I thought this was going to be about the psychology of the mob, but it seems it was about its spirituality, so to say.
- GVIrish 10y ago> Surreal how there are people smiling in that photograph with the corpses hanging. One of the grisly and horrifying things about lynching is that this was quite common. Whole towns would turn out and gladly pose for the camera with dead bodies in full view.
- tptacek 10y agoJust a few decades prior, people might have turned out jubilantly for public executions of convicted criminals, too. We've come a long way in, relative to history, a pretty short time.
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- greedo 10y agoWhen I first moved to Nebraska, there were celebrations outside the State Penitentiary right before the execution of John Joubert. People had tailgate parties, electric chair props were visible, so I don't think we've come as far as we'd like to think.
- justifier 10y ago.. confused by the title? > Yet, just as Cameron prepared for the end, someone spoke up. In Cameron’s retelling, a voice “rose above the deafening roar of the mob,” speaking “sharp and crisp, like bells ringing out on a clear, cold winter day.” The voice — “feminine” and “sweet” — delivered a simple instruction: “Take this boy back. He had nothing to do with any raping or killing.” i think it should be 'how to stop a lynching: speak out against hate'
- brightball 10y agoSeems like that should read 'speak up for the innocent'. I only say that because the word 'hate' gets thrown around a lot where it's neither accurate nor appropriate. Hate is an obsession level feeling that consumes a person. When people throw around the word, they lessen its meaning which causes people to dismiss it (and the person using it) when they hear it. Certainly, in the case of a lynching, using the word would be more appropriate so don't take my comment as direct at you in particular but more at just the overall internet's use of the word.
- jacquesm 10y agoThis is so wrong. See, it did not matter whether or not the person was innocent. What mattered was that you don't take the law into your own hands. And that person did speak up, but only after two people were already killed without any form of due process.
- brightball 10y agoAccording to the story it mattered that somebody stood up and DECLARED his innocence. If the mob was just up for killing black people (aka - hate) there would be no reason for that to stop them. The mob was out for what they perceived as some deranged form of justice. It's totally indefensible on all counts regardless. My comment was only around the use of the word "hate".
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- brightball 10y agoIt's in hearing stories like this that we should better understand how brave men like this really were: http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-08-17/100-years-ago-sc-sheriff-stared-down-1000-man-mob-save-black-inmate http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-08-17/10...
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- nathantotten 10y agoI often wonder what happens to the people in these types of photographs. Who are all these onlookers? Somebody must recognize them as their mother/father or grandmother/grandfather. Do they regret what they did or do they just remember it as something that happened "back then"?
- Steeeve 10y agoIt's scary how close we are as a society to this kind of a thing.
- hackuser 10y agoThe modern lynching is online. It very rarely results in murder, but it's the same behavior and motivation IMHO and it ruins lives.
- kkarakk 10y agoyou just need to read up on stories like the donglegate fiasco to show just how badly an online lynching can be for everyone involved.
- therationalist 10y agoWhat should be a crime is conflating mob justice with racism.
- aaron695 10y agoSo at best, assuming he was telling the full truth, he was part of a group who murdered someone in an attempt to rob them. He even had the gun. Exactly how was he pardoned?