sarah jeong

@mathewi sure they all have a sort of mob behavior, but condemning that is like condemning "aggression" in an anti-war article.

@AdrianChen @mathewi I see the outrage as a form of slactivism

@antderosa @adrianchen @mathewi it's worse than that; The outrage directs itself toward the most useless outcome, rather than real change.

@anildash @AntDeRosa @AdrianChen: agreed — that's part of what I was trying to get at in my post

@mathewi @antderosa @adrianchen some folks are more bothered by online tweet mobs than by things like @stopandfrisk? I don't get it.

@anildash @mathewi @AntDeRosa @AdrianChen @stopandfrisk because most of us are theoretically vulnerable to mobs. They feel it could be them

@fmanjoo @mathewi @antderosa @adrianchen the most fascinating response in these situations to me is white folks who say "It could be me!"

@anildash @fmanjoo @mathewi @antderosa @adrianchen was there ever collective dismay over a *not* white person getting twittermobbed