Have you ever been the victim of a real-time (live/in person) 'struggle session' - a group of people who are upset at you due to your political views, and then humiliate you and aggressively demand performative submission/apologies?
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Both online and offline. My favourite was an ex-friend who is a doctor (very into mental health) trying to use my mental health against me as an ultimatum or he would stop being my friend - when I shut him down, he apologised then flipped the lid when I didn't agree I was wrong.
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Yes, at a party where I argued with all 15 other people that punching “Nazi’s” simply for thinking and saying things they did not like was morally wrong, counterproductive, and itself rather Nazi-like. There was outrage, demands for apology, and serious attempts to shame.
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Sorry I voted without focusing on the live/in-person part. I said yes due to company chat experience(s)
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You may become immune to these by being impossible for them to humiliate and having more conviction than them, whoever they are.
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