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This kind of mob "justice" against people will destroy society. Stop promoting it.
by peroporque 6y ago
This kind of mob "justice" against people will destroy society. Stop promoting it.
- rbrtl 6y agoI don't think the inclusion of the word "mob" is very helpful. The connotations are both sinister, and organised. What we have is the logical extension of the social justice, or SJW, movement. Which even 2 years ago, in my recollections, would have been met with utter disdain. Somehow we've arrived at a time when social justice has a new-found legitimacy and few detractors still speaking out about it. To me this is scarier than a mob, who usually have a figurehead around whom they rally. The SJWs have been building their seat of power on the shoulders of social media celebrities. This is Huxleyan populism. People 'follow' others from their sofa, they 'like' things without critical assessment, bolstering support for an ill-defined cause based on memetic catchphrases and sound-bite signals.
- raxxorrax 6y agoThey learned from their detractors. Before they started witch hunts on Twitter, there were other groups that did the same in the age of the early net. Difference is that many people now have a public persona on social media.
- catalogia 6y agoTwitter mobs help get people fired. NSO helps people get murdered. I can't claim to be a big fan of either, but as long as both exist I know which I'd like to see prevail.
- peroporque 6y agoBecause middle grounds don't exist?