No, shunning is about building the power of the group doing the shunning. Which is why you see universities getting crazier and crazier, as students and academi

No, shunning is about building the power of the group doing the shunning. Which is why you see universities getting crazier and crazier, as students and academics learn they can obtain power 'for free' by merely virtue signalling: they get what they want, realise they can get more, and at some point the exercise of power becomes the ends justify the means.