Today's word is: mobbing. This is what the OED offers:
1. a. The action of a mob or group of people in attacking, harassing, or crowding round a person (now esp. in adulation or acclamation); an instance of this. Also: the action or an act of congregating in a mob or crowd.
It is apparently an ornithological term, used of flocks which turn on one particular member. But it is a useful description of occasional human behaviour too.
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absolutely agree with this. and it doesn't make it OK whether you're justified or not.....
absolutely agree with this. and it doesn't make it OK whether you're justified or not.....or whether you're "right" or not.
What's the practical solution to this? The only thing I've thought of so far is making a deliberate effort to talk to people who may be in that situation, but about neutral topics (and briefly, because frankly I don't really want to).
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