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Originally Posted by Pokesan
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What(I think) IRYD is saying is that their actions, as a mob, have very little to do with their social/political/whatever opinions. Mob mentality is a real thing. they didn't go there intending to bully a reporter.
It's a fair point.
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I don't think you can explain the cultish snapping instead of clapping away with "mob mentality". This is an
ideology (i hesitate to award it even this dubious distinction) these people are buying into even when they're not in a gibbering mob slipping on banana peels.
Mob mentality does apply to a certain extent to these peoples' willingness to escalate to violence while hooting each other on, and the rush of being in a mob probably explains a certain number of the people who are basically uninvolved but entertained enough to attend, but there's a system of ideas here that's initiating the conflict to begin with and keeping it alive between chimpouts.