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Jon Ronson Quotes

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“We know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don’t?”
— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Tagged: Social Media, The Digital Age, The internet, Shaming, Cancel Culture, Publicly Shamed
“I suppose that when shamings are delivered like remotely administered drone strikes nobody needs to think about how ferocious our collective power might be. The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.”
— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Tagged: Collective Power, Digital Witchhunts, Crowdthought
“People's flaws need to be written about. The flaws of some people lead to horrors inflicted on others. And then there are the more human flaws that, when you shine a light onto them, de-demonize people who might otherwise be seen as ogres.”
— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Tagged: Flaws, human, Being human, Making Mistakes, Empathy
“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed. As children, these men were shot, axed, scalded, beaten, strangled, tortured, drugged, starved, suffocated, set on fire, thrown out of the window, raped, or prostituted by mothers who were their pimps. For others, words alone shamed and rejected, insulted and humiliated, dishonored and disgraced, tore down their self-esteem, and murdered their soul. Their shaming occurred on a scale so extreme, so bizarre, and so frequent that one cannot fail to see that the men who occupy the extreme end of the continuum of violent behavior in adulthood occupied an equally extreme end of the continuum of violent child abuse earlier in life.”
— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Tagged: Violence, Shame, On Violence, Abuse
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