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So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed. As children, these men were shot, axed, scalded, beaten, strangled, tortured, drugged, starved, suffocated, set on fire, thrown out of the window, raped, o…”

— Jon Ronson, amazon.com

Tagged: Violence, Shame, On Violence, Abuse

“But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It's all very sweeping, and not the way we actually are as people.”

— Jon Ronson, amazon.com

Tagged: Internet Culture, Social Media, Millennials, Twitter, Technology

“And then one day it hit me. Something of real consequence was happening. We were at the start of a great renaissance of public shaming. After a lull of almost 180 years (public punishments were phased out in 1837 in the United Kingdom and in 1839 in the United States), it was back in a big way. When…”

— Jon Ronson, amazon.com

Tagged: Internet Culture, Shame, Mob Mentality, Justice

“People's flaws need to be written about. The flaws of some people lead to horrors inflicted on others. And then there are the more human flaws that, when you shine a light onto them, de-demonize people who might otherwise be seen as ogres.”

— Jon Ronson, amazon.com

Tagged: Flaws, human, Being human, Making Mistakes, Empathy

“I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.”

— Jon Ronson, amazon.com

Tagged: Collective Power, Digital Witchhunts, Crowdthought