Sentences with phrase «on mob mentality»

Someone who relies on mob mentality and feeding anxieties for support and would cheerfully burn witches.

Not exact matches

There's been quite of a bit of mob mentality driving the marketplace as the retail trader can feel empowered making public market calls on social media.

We must abandon the mob mentality and put on the mantle of respect.

My biggest hope is that we do not get distracted in the mob mentality and keep our focus on what we want / need as an outcome: Nestle to take responsibility for their irresponsible business practices and change the way we do business.

The attorney for Hempstead's embattled schools chief Shimon Waronker challenged the legitimacy of the decision by three board trustees to place the superintendent on administrative leave, saying Waronker was a victim of «mob mentality.»

The saddest part of the lynch mob mentality currently on the prowl is that the «sudden critics» of Alhaji Atiku want to hold him to a different standard, separate from known measures used for others.

It's an effective drama, and wholly plausible — see also the Meryl Streep drama A Cry in the Dark (1988), a predecessor in how ugly «guilty as soon as your accused» mob mentality can be — at least until the ending which seems tacked on as failed provocation.

Tom Hanks stars as the quintessential middle - class husband and father who has a growing suspicion of his unusual neighbours, and, egged on by the mob mentality of other members of the suburban cul - de-sac, ignites chaos and destruction.

Malloy, now famous for his -» I'd don't mind if they teach to the test as long as the test scores go up» — statement has been leading the mob mentality that is claiming that it is imperative that 20 - 40 % of a teacher's annual evaluation be based on their student's annual test scores.

The news that author Lauren Howard was pulling the release of her debut novel over this kind of mob - mentality after she was virtually brutalized by some members of the Goodreads community resulted in an outpouring of support from authors and readers alike; had the news of the vicious attacks on her and on her book not been shared so readily — as the Beihang study indicates — many online community members may have never even heard of Howard or her novel.

Two recent articles in the New York Times caught my attention — not just because they highlight the frenzy of vitriol that so often explodes on social media but also because they point to a disturbing «faceless mob» mentality permeating our digital lives.

Unfortunately, alarmists prevent this when they take evangelical views, words and actions regarding this particular issue often citing their own set of «facts» which five minutes study can debunk, geological history can debunk, solar cycles can debunk, temperature history can debunk, «ocean conveyer» history can debunk, etc... the cry «We have ten years or were all going to die» (or equivalent) is not helpful and simply creates a mob - mentality based on fear.

I fear that our blessed internet and its destruction of solid journalism has brought us straight back to reasoning on issues via mob mentality.

From yammerings on about the alleged harms of «fatherless» households, to the demanding of a «shared parental responsibility» post-divorce that they never undertook during marriage when she begged them to do so, these men epitomize the reason that for eons, societies have ended up engaging in wars, and atrocities of justice have never been quelched, and the reason that irrational male - mob - mentality, however ostensibly sophisticated, and however ostensibly educated, continues to be the rule of the day.