• cqthca@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    it is simply true. sometimes a peaceful crowd will go mad. hence there is a phrase “the madness of crowds”

    check out the dancing mania of the 14th-17th centuries

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      6 months ago

      Starting off your post with “Having not read the story” then wildly speculating and referencing some mania from centuries ago makes you look bad.

      I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK

      If you don’t know what you’re talking about, don’t wildly speculate in a way that gives plausible deniability to Israeli genocide.

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        6 months ago

        I’ll watch the mini-series. I was only speaking of crowds in general, so I didn’t have to read an article about crowds, because I just read a whole book about crowds and the madness that can accompany crowds. don’t tell me what i know. my comment was only on the scope of crowd psychology in human beings. A lot of the commenters are reading into things I said that arent’ there

        I said was “Having not read the story”…sometimes a peaceful crowd will go mad. hence there is a phrase “the madness of crowds”

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          6 months ago

          You can’t chalk up any violence against a crowd as potentially justified because there’s a saying in your language that says crowds get mad sometimes.