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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by saint_fiasco on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:34PM (#16099501)
Admitting you were wrong and apologizing in public, specifically.

An individual can be reasoned with, placated. You can make reparations, promises that the other person will believe because of a precedent of mutual trust and forgiveness.

However, you can't do that with an angry mob.

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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by rainbowmverse on Monday January 08, 2018 @02:54PM (#16099752)
The angry mob is irrelevant. There are more individuals watching quietly than people making their positions public. The mob will chill when their friends ask them to post-apology. I have been on all sides of this phenomenon: the chiller, the chillee, the apology. It works.
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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by saint_fiasco on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:16PM (#16099995)
The mob is big enough that they are not necessarily even friends with each other. People who ask the mob to chill risk being mobbed in turn. Punishment of non-punishers is how mobs sustain themselves.
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Re:James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google by pluto9 on Friday January 12, 2018 @05:34PM (#16136939)
The angry mob is the reason people like James Damore get fired while his openly white-male-hating coworkers are free to post their opinions on Twitter with no consequences at all. They are not at all irrelevant.
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