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Apologizing to a mob never makes sense. You just make the other mob angry and most of the current mob doesn't think you're authentic anyways. Or, as the articl
by wernercd 4y ago
Apologizing to a mob never makes sense. You just make the other mob angry and most of the current mob doesn't think you're authentic anyways.
Or, as the article says, "It was either not enough or, oh, my God, please stop.".
Trying to placate a mob is pointless.
Be authentic (apologize if you really mean it), otherwise stand your ground and stay still. The mob will move on eventually. They are fickle and easily distracted. If you stay still? they'll move on. If you dart around? You're a target for the pack. Let them find the next target.
- ehnto 4y agoA great way to think about any discussion on the public internet to be honest. Everything you say on twitter is to a mob, and within that mob is a very diverse group of people, not all of them working with the same perspective or even the same context and goals as you. There's that joke about using accidentally using Personality A with Friend Group B; with the modern social internet, you're talking to every friend group at the same time and I think that's why we have such defensive pretense, placation and weasel wording going on. You lose all nuance, and you also lose benefit of the doubt. I think that's what is missing on broadcast platforms like FB/Twitter et al, and why Discord has been such a hit. Discord gives you discrete friend groups, so you can form deeper more nuanced dialogues about topics over a long period of time.
- _yb2s 4y agoExactly, this integrity and sincerity is what is missing with this stuff. These people are apologizing out of fear, not because they feel it’s the right thing to do.