2018 Newsletter 16: Learned Helplessness and the logic of lynchings
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If you're Indian you know this already and if you aren't you may not care, but in this essay, I want to pay some attention to a new innovation in the annals of violence: the Whatsapp driven lynchings of muslims accused of being rustlers of cows, though like every other innovation, it's spread to lynchings of men and women accused of stealing children. We are having our Salem Witch Trial via social media moment.
2018 Newsletter 16: Learned Helplessness and the logic of lynchings
2018 Newsletter 16: Learned Helplessness and…
2018 Newsletter 16: Learned Helplessness and the logic of lynchings
If you're Indian you know this already and if you aren't you may not care, but in this essay, I want to pay some attention to a new innovation in the annals of violence: the Whatsapp driven lynchings of muslims accused of being rustlers of cows, though like every other innovation, it's spread to lynchings of men and women accused of stealing children. We are having our Salem Witch Trial via social media moment.