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Mitch Albom: The ricochet effect of public shaming now on full display

m.knox

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The left has no shame.... That's part of the damn problem.

http://ux.freep.com/story/sports/co...8/06/30/mitch-albom-public-shaming/747998002/

So it intrigued me to watch the recent public shaming of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, who went to a restaurant called the Red Hen in Virginia and was asked to leave by the owner, who was offended by Sanders’ politics.

We also recently saw a Congresswoman, Maxine Waters, exhorting her supporters at a rally in Los Angeles, telling them, “If you see anybody from that (Trump) Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and create a crowd…And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”

Public shaming. All that’s missing is the dunce cap. Except this time, the dumb behavior is from the people who think they’re being smart.

....................The fact that Wilkinson is being celebrated in certain corners as some kind of hero only shows you how deep into hypocrisy our angry divisions have thrown us. To use words like “honesty, compassion and cooperation” as reasons to evict someone shows a total lack of, well, honesty, compassion and cooperation.

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A one week suspension? Yes. And her boss, Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, told the media that the intern, a young woman, “took full responsibility (for her actions)” while Trump has not.

This is a common defense. Donald Trump is crude, a bully, uncivil, mean. It’s not us. He started it!

We used to say the same thing in grade school.
 
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