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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

My answer: practically speaking, the attempt to shame others, with good reason or not, often backfires spectacularly, and that it is especially likely to do so when the person shaming you is a stranger you've never met from a rival ideological coalition rather than your mom — PolitiTweet.org

@conor64 Serious question: Do you feel like Americans would adhere to the former obligation without being made cons… https://t.co/klQUmilplK

Posted Nov. 6, 2021

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@alexschmidt I totally agree, and while I think shame is the wrong word here, too, your example at least implicates things happening now, which we have some ability to do more about. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 6, 2021

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@GustavoArellano @coastallyfleek I suspect I can wrote all sorts of hypotheticals where you'd reject shame of this sort. A 15 year old escapes North Korea and winds up a refugee in the United States. Should he feel shame for the atrocities his country perpetrated against its own people and its neighbors? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 6, 2021