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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
I've only skimmed headlines on this, so maybe I'm missing something here, but why is this the crux of the issue? There is a list of despicable, fully grown adult athletes far too long to recall that includes, racists, abusers, rapists, petty criminals and even murderers.
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It's far easier to make a scapegoat of one person who is not in a position of power. Throw one piece of meat to the mob, and by the time they've finished tearing it to shreds, they'll get bored and move on to some other issue.
G. K. Chesterton had an apt analogy. Suppose, he said, somebody wanted to paint the whole world blue. If he only painted one blade of grass blue every day, he would get on very slowly. But if he got up every morning with a new favourite colour, he would not get on at all.
Internet mobs include a lot of people who get off on righteous anger and vicarious grievance, but haven't got the gumption or the staying power to work on one problem as long as it takes to solve it. The slogans change every few months, but the underlying pathologies remain.