During the T-ara bullying scandal, one member was called out and most of the other members got persecuted for it. But when Jessica Jung of SNSD got booted out, the negativity hardly touched the group; if anything, it was Ms. Jung got the brunt of it.
Why? Because the T-ara members tweeted about Hwayoung's unprofessional behavior, maybe. He who casts the first stone - since Ms. Jung tweeted about what happened first, she's the aggressor.
(The above paragraph still doesn't make sense to me, thirty minutes into editing this post. It doesn't have to - it's a script that we fall into, the idea that there's a bad guy and good guy in any conflict.)
People surrender their higher brain functions in a crowd. And crowds figure into cases of unintended consequences.
Groups are fickle, but the sad thing is to get anywhere in this world we have to work with them. We have to work in groups to reach a goal; but one thing I found to be useful is that we don't have to put up with the group outside of reaching the goal.
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