Jon Ronson talks about the shamed people in his new book

[PrestonSturges]

@anon67050589

Personally, I’ve found “anti-vegan personality disorder” to be more widespread and at least as aggressive.

All ingroups share that perception.

[shaddack]

@FoolishOwl

If we hadn’t successfully countered it, by publicly condemning GamerGate and rallying opposition against it, how much worse might things have gotten?

Fizzling out into the abyss of forgotten outrages much faster, maybe? Without properly rallied opposition, such affairs can (and do) die in days.

[anon67050589]

@PrestonSturges

All ingroups share that perception.

Were you referring to me personally? I’m not vegan or anti-vegan.

[PrestonSturges]

If you have anxiety about that issue, it suggests an identification with that group. My opinion isn’t relevant.

[popobawa4u]

I think it’s unhelpful to assume identification, since this process only makes modelling any scenarios more difficult, and tends to encourage personal problems.

[PrestonSturges]

@clifyt

I see what you did there! I honestly feel that there is a new style journalist that can talk about a subject where they seem like experts to anyone except anyone that has had more than a 100 level introduction to the field they are writing about.

“The Psychopath Test” seems to have been very misleading because he was mostly writing about narcissism, and certainly nothing to do with psychosis. In a similar vein, “The No Asshole” rule was extremely shallow. I have not read this book on shaming, but shame has a rich history and has been the subject of archeaology, sociology, and psychology which I’ll guess gets glossed over.