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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
Do you even read the posts you quote? Read up a bit and I state what I was talking about with public shaming, it had nothing to do with the purpose of the parade.
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Fair enough, I don't know who the "Dear Fat People" girl is or what happened with her. But I believe my point still stands and that is that, if people stop their bigoted behavior due to a fear of being shamed for it (whether that threat actually exists or not), completely depends on their own feeling of an issue. If they really felt in the right, then the possibility of public shaming wouldn't bother them. The fear does not make the threat real, it only means that they realize they are vastly outnumbered in their opinion. Same for guilt, if someone keeps their outdated opinions quiet because they fear being guilted for it, doesn't that say more about how they feel about it than anyone else? They obviously realize that these prejudices are not OK in modern society if they are changing their behavior because of the reaction
they think they will receive.
If the fear that someone on the street might shame you for littering, or the thought that you would feel guilty for throwing a piece of trash on the ground, prevents you from doing so, isn't that a good thing? Isn't that exactly how anything changes culturally? Is a guy coming up to you after you throw a candy wrapper on the ground to say "Hey man, can you not litter? Thanks" public shaming? If I went up to a person who just shouted fa**** and said "hey you really shouldn't use words like that" a public shaming?
In fact, I would argue the person voicing the proper opinion in both those scenarios is more at risk of being verbally (or possibly physically) abused than the person who committed the act in the first place. Telling someone their wrong doesn't have to be hostile.