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The article is talking about something more than protest. Most of the hatred was focused on Dr. Murray, but when I took his right arm to shield him and to make

The article is talking about something more than protest. Most of the hatred was focused on Dr. Murray, but when I took his right arm to shield him and to make sure we stayed together, the crowd turned on me. Someone pulled my hair, while others were shoving me. I feared for my life. Once we got into the car, protesters climbed on it, hitting the windows and rocking the vehicle whenever we stopped to avoid harming them. I am still wearing a neck brace, and spent a week in a dark room to recover from a concussion caused by the whiplash. That's basically mob violence. Respectful protest and disagreement is to hear someone out, not intimidate and violently stop them from speaking. It's just an odd mindset. You're at college, so presumably you are there to be educated, to experience different points of view, to learn. edit: Asked if modern media or some other factor was the biggest cause of this, saying this so the reply makes sense.

Swizec 9y ago
> Or is there some other change in society that is a bigger factor? Tribalism. We seem to be hardwired for it, to seek it out. As the immediate bonds in family/religion/neighborhood/etc are being torn down by modern individualism, so new tribal bonds are formed. In the age of the internet, as you said, you can find a voice that validates any belief. A community forms around the smallest nugget of common belief. And so tribes are formed. Mind you we also seem to be living in a society that increasingly believes that anything you think, you immediately believe to be true. That to hold opposing beliefs, or at least to inspect and consider thoughts that are “wrong”, immediately makes you ... I dunno. Almost like thinking something immediately makes it your sole belief. So it becomes impossible, dangerous even, to allow opposing beliefs to even be expressed lest they take you over. Thought police basically.

Swizec 9y ago

> Or is there some other change in society that is a bigger factor? Tribalism. We seem to be hardwired for it, to seek it out. As the immediate bonds in family/religion/neighborhood/etc are being torn down by modern individualism, so new tribal bonds are formed. In the age of the internet, as you said, you can find a voice that validates any belief. A community forms around the smallest nugget of common belief. And so tribes are formed. Mind you we also seem to be living in a society that increasingly believes that anything you think, you immediately believe to be true. That to hold opposing beliefs, or at least to inspect and consider thoughts that are “wrong”, immediately makes you ... I dunno. Almost like thinking something immediately makes it your sole belief. So it becomes impossible, dangerous even, to allow opposing beliefs to even be expressed lest they take you over. Thought police basically.