I disagree that all instances of "silencing" are bullying. Take this journalist's recent flight experience: https://mobile.twitter.com/i/events/111017039858948

I disagree that all instances of "silencing" are bullying. Take this journalist's recent flight experience: https://mobile.twitter.com/i/events/1110170398589480961 https://mobile.twitter.com/i/events/1110170398589480961 Some young woman was on her own on a flight and was getting creeped on by an older man. The journalist stepped in, flight attendants stepped in, the man was berated and eventually forced to move. Now those words - the man was berated and forced to move. If a group of schoolkids did that to some random nerdy kid on the playground, and we used those words to describe the situation, that's bullying. In the case of the flight, it obviously isn't. So, I don't think it's so much about whether I agree with the crowd's opinion, but a greater context. At an LGBT parade there's a fire and brimstone pastor shouting about how everyone's going to hell. The crowd is shouting back. Is that bullying? I don't really think so. I think it's the pastor that came to do the bullying.