"try to get them to come around to our point of view" sounds genteel but rather understates the ferocity of the persuasion, don't you think? In any case, the W

"try to get them to come around to our point of view" sounds genteel but rather understates the ferocity of the persuasion, don't you think? In any case, the Wikipedia article on shunning sums it up nicely: Some aspects of shunning may also be seen as being at odds with civil rights or human rights, especially those behaviours that coerce and attack. When a group seeks to have an effect through such practices outside its own membership, for instance when a group seeks to cause financial harm through isolation and disassociation, they can come at odds with their surrounding civil society, if such a society enshrines rights such as freedom of association, conscience, or belief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning#Civil_rights_implications https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunning#Civil_rights_implicat...