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Originally Posted by GGG
She problaby should lose her job for the tweet. I think that is reasonable for a public person.
Shaming to conform to social norms was maybe is and important part of our evolutionary make up. How do things like racisim, homophobia and others get changed. The first step is usually logic and converstaion but when that fails what are societies options to further in act positive change? Refusing to tolerate and objecting to the offending behaviour is the only way to stop it.
The problem with the internet is it goes to far. The guy repearting the tweet and here getting fiired from her job is probably a reasonable consequence. The long term shame associated with it is not. So maybe the issue is when people pile on. Bringing it out into the open for all to see is valuable and can create positive change but shaming a person into submission and changing the way someone has to live is not.
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Was she really that public of a person, any more so than you or I? So she was senior director of communications at some firm. Is that any different than any senior geoscientist or senior financial analyst in the multitude of companies worldwide? She's just another employee...not a celebrity or public sports figure. She had 170 followers for crying out loud. Someone (in this case Biddle), chose to make an example of her.
I don't disagree with you regarding the fact that the long term shame went too far. At the end of the day, maybe she should have just made her account private. But again, with 170 followers, you don't expect it to blow up like that.