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Originally Posted by Rubecube

Christ. Say what you will about SJWs, but MRAs always find a way to take it one step further.

Don't you get that it's the same exact behaviour, though? It's a mob reaction intended to make the members of the mob feel confident like they're part of something empowering, probably in most cases to overcome some personal insecurities. The SJW stuff along these lines can be equally violent and equally intrusive.

You can say the SJW stuff at least has its heart in the right place - penalizing people for bigotry or whatnot - but that's really just a thin veil to excuse the behaviour and allow people to justify to themselves what is basically the lower-stakes, 21st century version of a lynching.

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

Hate is a strong word, but I hate this website.

There's a spectrum with this SJW stuff. For example, some of the stuff that gets the mob treatment is honestly held comments or real-world behaviour that is harmful and SHOULD be publicly shamed to some degree. Then there's stuff like an innocuous (if horrendously ill-thought out) joke that costs a woman her livelihood. It's really a matter of scale... and sometimes the appropriate, proportional response is hard to put your finger on. It's ALWAYS hard to control the reaction.

Take Harrison Mooney. Blogger for puck daddy, IM's a bunch of girls with some creepy messages hitting on them. This isn't quite predatory behaviour - he's hitting on girls. But it's also not quite as innocuous as a bad joke, because he doesn't seem to know when to take a hint and you can understand that the girls he's fumblingly hitting on feel legitimately uncomfortable. The response cost him his job and resulted in him being labeled within the hockey internet community as a sexual predator and the face of everything wrong with how female fans are treated in hockey. I dunno, man, that seems like a bit much to this observer for a seemingly normal if awkward guy who just doesn't know how to appropriately engage with the opposite sex... but I bet some people would disagree.