Stephen Miller and his sushi - The Value of Public Shame

[sharedvalues]

These acts of public shame are important, and highly productive, for two reasons: because they impose personal consequences on the people committing the bad acts (e.g. caging children).

And second, but probably more important, because the public shame works to INFORM the rest of America. There's 30% of Americans out there who aren't paying attention. Republicans desperately want Dems to stop, because Republicans don't want that 30% to wake up.

Our job is to WAKE them UP.

On the first point: that personal consequences affect behavior:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22090542/stephen-miller-80-dollars-sushi-shame/

Stephen Miller's No Good, Very Bad Sushi Night Is Another Win for Shame
You don't get to do whatever you want as a public official with no consequences.

In reality, these are acts of public shaming to respond to public officials' actions and behavior in office. The intent is to place social penalties on behavior that is not illegal, but which some citizens feel must be discouraged. If you choose a career in public life, you will be held accountable for what you do in it. Miller, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, are public servants paid by the taxpayer. Republicans have worked tirelessly to limit the old-fashioned democratic recourse that Certain People have by restricting the right to vote, diluting the power of certain votes, and attempting to pack the judiciary with judges who will uphold these anti-democratic power grabs.

But even if they hadn't, it would still be totally acceptable for a restaurant owner to turn Sanders away, or for a bartender to offer Miller some feedback in no uncertain terms. Civility is not among the core values of a democratic culture—unless you have sufficient privilege that you instinctively protect the status quo above all else. Every great protest movement in America has been uncivil. The Founders were uncivil. And most of all, Trump officials are not being punished for who they are, but because of what they've done.

And on the second point, Martin Luther King:
The right knows that direct protests work. That is why they are scared and want the protests to stop. That is why the right is tut-tutting about civility, and tut-tutting now about how these protests dont' accomplish what we want. That is bollocks. That is a right wing talking point. Shame works. Listen to Dr. King:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016210192

King said:

“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue,” King wrote. “It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”

THIS is why public shame works. Because it makes issues like caging children issues that can no longer be ignored.

[malaise]

1. What I find amazing is how they all love ethnic food

[Recursion]

4. Dude literally lives in Chinatown

I've been in DC long enough that I remember when it was actually Chinese, rather than just another Downtown area where the Starbucks and Hooters happen to have Chinese characters on their awnings (they do).

If I'm reading this right, he went to Kofuku, which, yes, is a legit good sushi spot. But I refuse to believe that it's because he knows the difference.

[malaise]

6. Great post

Inside knowledge is relish

[JI7]

15. imagine the culture of the US without liberals

film, food, sports, music,art etc.

[malaise]

16. That's why they must be humiliated

and treated like pariah.

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R

[Eko]

3. K&R

[riversedge]

5. I think their is lots of high value to public shaming of officials who cage children.

[BigmanPigman]

7. It almost makes me wish I lived in DC so I could shame these monsters.

[lunatica]

8. Public shaming is now a thing in our

high tech social media culture so we should get much more of it and find out very quickly through twitter.

If we know about them so does the rest of the world.

[Cha]

9. Excellent advice from Martin Luther King!

“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue,” King wrote. “It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”

And, those that called out for SHS to be able to eat in Peace don't know what they're talking about.

[Xipe Totec]

10. Hijo de sushi...ngada madre. nt

[sharedvalues]

12. ngada?

pleas eexplain

[Tipperary]

13. The missing letters are chi

Get it?

[sharedvalues]

18. +1

[Xipe Totec]

17. sushi...ngada - Su chingada nt

[Duppers]

11. +100

[Scurrilous]

14. K&R