Wrathe
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I'm not sure I understand why you're calling this "mob" rule. We as a society reject racism, do we not? So, this is an example of that...
I'm really having a hard time understanding your argument either from a pragmatic standpoint or a philosophical one. I see no harm done in this man losing his job....
Again, I have to ask, what am I missing?
Brett Weinstein was the teacher who showed up to school on a day White people were supposed to stay home "Day of Presence / Day of Absence" stuff. The video that was spread was the mob of students standing outside his office, I presume, and tearing into him demanding justice.
Another example would be Facebook pages of merchants getting blasted for selling anything to do w/ Trump or Ivanka lines of apparel. It's all the same text, it's social activism to copy/paste and try and denial of service their community forums.
Imagine a case where anyone says their opinion that's unpopular w/ what I would sardonically call, "the agenda". The desire for people to try and socially shame and then try and shame their employers into taking action against someone. I dunno, I guess it's not for me to condemn or justify. Maybe it's rational to some to do that. I couldn't and sleep well, period. Especially, however, in some of these cases I've read in the past, they seemed petty.
More mob rule justice is players getting crucified in the media before details have come to light. Josh Brown, as an example, did shitty stuff, but I thought got screwed. Mixon I thought got screwed because of the video release, dude got ripped a 2nd time over it because of the "mob".
I dunno, I prefer battles in courts w/ laws, where time is taken to gather facts, context provided, over some TMZ ADD burnout catching a Twitter feed, getting their activist juices flowing and costing some folks their careers.