Comment by clarionbell
1 day ago
I do hope that some members of the mob will reflect and repent. That they will be more hesitant next time. But unfortunately, I have a feeling that they are mostly going to double down.
Real monsters are walking free of consequence, while innocents are ruined. Society is so obsessed with moral puritanism, and completely blind to the absurd corruption at the top.
If all that energy expended on cancelling people was instead used on genuine political action, we wouldn't be in the trouble we are now at. If more people were reasonable at the time and didn't jump to conclusions, they would still have the high ground. Instead they became the boy who cried wolf.
The members of the mob are thus because they seek to avoid reflection on their actual lives. I don't think there will be much learning; We will see them at the next mass movement.
I dunno if they will; it can be a case where "if you're not for us, you're against us", that is, what would the consequence have been for people not signing it? Or what if they retract their signature? There will be people out there tracking and logging all of the signers and their actions.