Am I correct that many traditional societies use/used shunning

[cilla4progress]

as a behavior modification technique, to keep their members in check?

Could we employ this effectively here - in the US?

[Baitball Blogger]

1. The right-wing do it all the time to keep their people in line.

Do we really want to do the same to our people?

[pwb]

2. It would be hard.

Fox News has emptied out the asylum.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. By whom, to whom, to what end?

The U.S. is pretty heterogeneous. We're not always great at collective action.

[cilla4progress]

4. I'm asking about using shunning to quell

these crazy outbursts, the destructive behavior - for some accountability, since our institutions are creaky and slow, at best.

It is not excessive - it's ethical, natural, appropriate, de-escalating.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. What crazy outbursts?

[brooklynite]

6. Whom do you engage with that you'd like to shun?

[lapucelle]

7. ...

The New Puritans

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/

[Deminpenn]

8. Right here in America, the Amish practice

shunning against wayward community members.

[Lars39]

10. Witnessed church of Christ shunning a member,

been on the receiving end of a southern Baptist shunning. Fun times

[EYESORE 9001]

9. ...

[Amishman]

11. What makes you think they'd care?

I'm thinking only a small share of the hardcore conservatives share their beliefs openly enough to identify them. Those that do usually are civil / on good terms with those who don't share their wingnut ideals. In other words, the worst offenders are mostly doing this already.

[Binkie The Clown]

12. In a non-industrial culture survival depends on group cohesion.

Everyone needs to look, think, act, and believe the same way or it threatens the survival of the group. Internal dissension is deadly to small band of humans. Conformity is required.

[hunter]

13. A simple "Fuck off!" usually works wonders.

If not, pepper spray.

[cilla4progress]

14. Clearly (I would think) I am referring

to the crazy insurrectionist types who are getting away with whatever they want right now! Include TFG and his allies.

For example: why doesn't DOJ just lower the fucking boom? I get process. I get democracy. But when you are dealing with a foe that does not respect it, for example, FASCISTS, do you wait till AFTER the genocide starts or try to head it off?

Shunning seems to me a rather low-level initial step.

[lindysalsagal]

15. How about "our" traditional society? Many religions use it.

[cilla4progress]

16. This is where we have to steer away from

false equivalency.

Can we not agree that it is 1) ok to criticize the government, march and demonstrate in response to policies we don't approve of and are trying to change and also 2) NOT OK to attack law enforcement with chemical and physical weapons in the national capitol?

[lagomorph777]

18. Jail is a physically enforced version of shunning.

[fescuerescue]

17. We see it everyday!

We are currently seeing it around vaccination.