Thread by @UnRapporteur1

Here is a thread containing 10 Clues the Eliminative Lust of Mobbing is Present.

I invite you to comment with evidence from the past 4 years you feel applies.

(Report any abuse).

(Administrative Mobbing at the University of Toronto, Westhues, 2004)

1. The target is a popular

A high-achieving person and solid performer. Popularity of the television show Survivor illustrates this – when a possible winner would be voted off the island because their skills and prowess made them ‘a threat’.

2. Lack of due process

Sophisticated eliminators make a show of appearing scrupulously fair, but vigilant outsiders can usually see through it.

3. Odd timing

Taking someone by surprise is a tactic of war, not respectful coexistence. Things unexpected, unannounced reduce the odds of the target mounting a successful defense.

4. Resistance to external review

Impassioned excluders want nothing more than that the higher authority and outside agencies stay out of the matter. “We can handle this ourselves.”

5. Secrecy

Eliminators prefer to keep their proceedings confidential, cloaked. Against this, Justice Louis Brandeis offered the sage advice that sunlight is the best disinfectant.

6. Unanimity

The loss of diverse opinion is a compelling indication the eliminative fury has been unleashed. When all agree on the need to put someone down, when they all demand it.

7. Fuzzy charges

Real or imagined sins are added up to necessitate the target’s ouster.

8. Prior marginalization

Evidence of the target being marginalized, ostracized, and treated with contempt before the offenses cited as grounds for formal expulsion and humiliation.

9. Impassioned rhetoric

The more fervent and overwrought the language used against the target, the less likely is the basis for exclusion anything but a collective will to destroy. Preposterous, paranoid, crazy, or even a ‘difficult person’ are all used to great effect.

10. Back-biting

Malicious gossip and whispering campaigns behind a person’s back are common attributes of elimination processes. The usual foundation of formal sanctions is the circulation of rumors and stories to discredit the target. “Did you hear what she did last week?”