Culture of shame (1 Viewer)

[wazoo11]

Do you agree with that our culture of humiliating our peers has gotten out of hand? Why or why not? I'll hang up and listen. ( more specefic - how we view anonymous internet shaming and what effects it has)

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/is-our-culture-of-online-shaming-out-of-control

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2015/04/internet_shaming_the_legal_history_of_shame_and_its_costs_and_benefits.html

 

[Nugget]

Poll question is a bit vague - internet shaming has gotten to brutal. Catholic mother shaming is great parenting.

 

[mr roboto]

Does shaming deserve a place? Of course. Shame is a good motivator for avoiding certain behaviors sometimes.

Relentless and anonymous internet shaming? No.

 

[AAABatteries]

It hasn't worked on Tim.

 

[cstu]

“Like me, at 22, a few of you may also have taken wrong turns by falling in love with the wrong person,” she said to the crowd (there was a “pin-drop silence,” as one attendee described it to me). “Maybe even your boss. Unlike me, though, your boss probably wasn’t the President of the United States of America.”

Somehow she left out the "married" part.