[gargamel]

Originally Posted by Itse

One major propagator of public shaming is of course various internet sites from gawker to buzzfeed to Jezebel. The last of which posted this magnificantly tone deaf response to the NYT article.

http://groupthink.jezebel.com/i-dont.../+markshrayber

That column was ridiculous. Do they seriously think this is a defense of shaming these people?

She may have been trying to poke fun at the white privilege bubble, sure I guess, but a dismissive stupid comment, that has to be fewer than 140 characters, doesn't leave any room for context or nuance. Furthermore, the internet didn't know Justine personally.

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we don't know you or the "witty" point you're trying to make. (Even if I did know you, I'd still tell you to shut the #### up because that #### isn't funny.)

When the online world sees bigoted, racist, misogynist, and intolerant things, we literally have no choice but to take that content at face value.

So accepting that you don't know these people or have any context and therefore might be attributing views to them that they don't really have isn't an option?