Jon Ronson Quotes

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Jon Ronson

Profession : Journalist

Birth : May 10, 1967

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

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Everyone's constantly scrambling around trying to justify their own cruel behavior, trying to come up with psychological tricks to make themselves not feel bad.

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Of course there's systemic misogyny in certain parts of our culture and systemic racism and a wider range of insults women have to face.

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I consider myself a social justice person.

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The world outside Twitter was great. I read books. I reconnected with people I knew from real life and met them for drinks in person. Then I drifted back on to Twitter.

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Shaming is powerful and useful. I'm living in New York, and my instinct is that, after the Black Lives Matter protests, which were organized on social media, the chance of there being another Eric Garner, choked to death in New York by an NYPD officer, has diminished.

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Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.

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