Here's a word we need in 2019: Lapidation. An old word for stoning someone to death. @CassSunstein proposes we use it for virtual stonings -- outrage mobs that ruin reputations and lives, with little regard for truth or proportion.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-23/harvard-professor-falls-victim-to-group-outrage …
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Lapidation accomplishes VERY valuable functions. 1. makes the lapidators FEEL GOOD about themselves 2. intimidates Wrongthinkers into remaining silent and/or going underground >> leading to 3. Preference falsification cascade perpetuating illusion of progressive consensus
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We just need to you have a little more positivity about this sacrifice ending the drought and it will work.
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