Don't dog pile! Once a point has been made a hundred times you don't need to add your contribution. Don't indulge a retributive impulse even if you're convinced you are on the side of the angels.
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Some public people become conduits and I think they know what and why they are doing it. I think it’s a dog pile game now and people provoke deliberately. The rest of us stay carefully anonymous. Too many women got permanently banned by twitter- it became really risky.
If people have large amounts of social media capital, & many supporters, cheerleaders, etc, then I suspect that largely mitigates the effect of a pile on (and as you say the provocation might be deliberate). 1/
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But too often people find themselves in the middle of a storm that's only tangentially the result of their own actions. I'm sufficiently attracted to the Kantian idea we don't treat people solely as a means to an end, that I'm doubtful I could be persuaded that feelings of... 2/
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solidarity thereby engendered could ever justify the devastation that is risked by targeting particular (not well known) individuals for social media shaming. But I realize I'm speaking from a position of privilege, and if I had been systemically deprived... 3/
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of my voice then quite possibly my moral intuitions would go in a different direction.
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