padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
it's hugely dangerous. look no further than the last 80 years or Republican Rome. or the French Revolution. or classical Athens.assuming The Mob can be controlled is dangerous
to hold a left politics you have to believe in people's fundamental capacity for empathy (mutual aid) and common sense (self-determination), given a chance
which, despite being as deeply and thoroughly cynical as they come, I do - I believe in the capacity of individuals
mob justice is different - it's riding a tiger. it may well accomplish your aims but once unleashed you don't know where or how far it will go, who it will target. it can be manipulated, usually with ease, by someone (or some force) that knows how.
public shaming, cancellation, etc arose b/c the official mechanisms for dealing with these things were either non-existent or deeply inadequate