Jon Ronson

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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  • Luhas quoted3 years ago
    Forget gets me off the hook too easily,’ he replied. ‘I didn’t want to remember. So I made no effort to. I wrote well. So why check?’
  • Luhas quoted3 years ago
    The self-plagiarism should have been a warning sign,’ Jonah said. ‘It should have been a sign that I was stretched then. If I needed to recycle my own material, why was I bothering to write this blog post in the first place?
  • Luhas quoted3 years ago
    Academics shouldn’t diagnose people from afar as sociopaths. It was a stupid thing for Jerry Coyne to have done. I think Jonah wanted us to bitch about his stupidity for a moment. It would be a way for him to recover some self-esteem - to do a bit of shaming of someone else
  • Luhas quoted3 years ago
    because it didn’t seem to be crossing any of our minds to wonder whether whichever person we had just shamed was OK or in ruins.
  • Luhas quoted3 years ago
    Without the hope that springs eternal in the human breast, without some desire to reform and become a good citizen, and the feeling that such a thing is possible, no criminal can ever return to honorable courses
  • Luhas quoted3 years ago
    They were stopped because they were far too brutal.
  • Luhas quoted3 years ago
    Michael had noticed that people were starting to feel scared of him.
  • Luhas quoted3 years ago
    the Knight Foundation had decided to erect a giant-screen live Twitter feed behind his head. Anyone watching from home could tweet their ongoing opinion of Jonah’s request for forgiveness using the hashtag #infoneeds and their comment would automatically appear, in real time and in gigantic letters, right next to Jonah’s face. A second screen was positioned within his eyeline.
  • Luhas quoted3 years ago
    It was unconsciously filtering out evidence that pointed to his innocence
  • Luhas quoted3 years ago
    victims of their hidden brain, undone by flaws so deep-seated they don’t even notice their existence.
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