Here’s why social justice Twitter mobs are bad

By Emily Jashinsky

Published February 20, 2018 8:37pm ET

Here’s why social justice Twitter mobs are bad — In this 2011 photo, traffic passes the New York Times building, in New York City. Last week, Twitter users criticized New York Times writer Bari Weiss after she sent out a tweet about an Olympic figure skater that was meant as a celebration of immigrants. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) | Mark Lennihan

Call it the progressive pile-on.

Whenever a reasonably well-intentioned media actor wades into waters deemed problematic by progressives on social media, reflexive hysteria ensues, and Twitter buzzes with hyperbolic clap-backs decrying the person’s alleged racism, or sexism, or whatever the relevant -ism happens to be that day.