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“Social media is based on a simple economy: Outgoing attention is the labor that social media requires of its proletariat; incoming attention is the wage it pays them. The group dynamics in this economy of little Willy Lomans all but ensure that the majority of the ordinary person’s social-media interactions are with like-minded people and that these groups of like-minded people self-radicalize in the way most like-minded groups do, a pattern that has long been familiar to scholars of deliberation and group psychology.”
― Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

“The charges of ‘white privilege’ or ‘rape apologist’ are thrown around only because we no longer accuse people of being witches or communists when we wish to destroy them.”
― Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

“Like Don Corleone, I don’t judge a man for how he makes his living. What I judge a man for is something else: Not the desire to have an audience, to make money, all that sort of thing, but the abject, craven, humiliating need to be loved by strangers. I mean the emptiness that a certain kind of man or woman tries to fill with adulation, characteristic of the man who cannot stand in front of a crowd without being possessed to deliver corny prepackaged applause lines, who will kiss the collective ass of the mob—and any mob will do—because that mob ass simply must be kissed.”
― Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

“You can’t shout ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater" is an abominably stupid cliché that has empowered more mob rule than the AK-47.”
― Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics