I want to go on record in saying that I against mob justice in this case, and I would like steady, fair, and ordinary judicial procedures, and proportionality, to hold. | @zeynep https://twitter.com/walterolson/status/1267177625426026496 …
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Replying to @NAChristakis
This isn’t related at all to my article on mass social sanction when no other remedy is available to defend people’s safety and even life. :-)
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Replying to @zeynep
The case in Central Park had no other remedy but widespread public derision, job loss, and so on? I decry that case as you do. For me, the issue is proportionality and also the principle that mobs, when unleashed, will surely overshoot.
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Replying to @NAChristakis
I would rather there were charges. Job loss is always complex. Should she oversee non-white employees? Make financial decisions on them? A review, at least, is merited. That said my piece was about future deterrence. Unfortunately, her example is one of many many such incidents.
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No doubt social sanction can overshoot. I wrote that. But there are harms in all directions here and one side is people’s right to live. Social sanction in such cases—especially given threat to life is from the authorities—is desperate but not unwarranted.
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