This guy is great. I highly recommend "So You've Been Publicly Shamed". A really brilliant book. The audiobook is read by Jon also.

For some reason I can picture Jon Ronson peering, uncannily, from the top window of a semi-detached house in Worksop in an almost totally abandoned post-apocalyptic British landscape.

His books are so easy to read, really good combination of funny and interesting

jon ronson looks like a very intelligent, very well-intentioned owl

You should listen to his wonderful podcast series "Things Fell Apart ". Absolutely brilliant.

I have such admiration for Jon Ronson addressing this subject now. I'm fear not many are listening however. For those of us who understand the consequences of this lynch mobbing, we can see what will happen if people don't self-regulate. And, we wonder how and why injustice happens at all; we need only look at our own lives and how we justify our actions thinking we are right. The question should be 'what is right rather than AM I right.' Narcissistic whether or not we realize it.

I have seen some dope lectures in this room. Thanks UKposts and Oxford

So good 👍

great discussion

Jon Ronson - *hits you with a serious quote* immediately after 'ooh peroni!' what a hilarious, intelligent man. Love, love, love him

The fact that Adria had it worse than Hank doesn't take away from the fact that she started the shaming. She felt so self-righteous about a simple joke that she was hoping for a Justine Sacco situation on these tho guys, and she was quite succesful until Hank asked for help and Hank's people were just way better at it. The MRAs and allies just shamed the shamer. I'm not defending the style of abuse. Hank never wanted the insults and rape threats, he just asked for support against the injustice he faced, and had he remained silent (Jon calls for fighting back himself) he might have had the year of depression and joblessness.

I just bought ALL of your books!

Jon Ronson is a very clever man ❤️😂

What an AWESOME SPEAKER!

As I scrolled down looking for things to watch, I misread this video's title, thinking that Jon Ronson had a new documentary out called 'Full Address'.

Jon. When he's 15 years older, he'll be known as a national treasure. Not because he's not done enough to be one already, but because that's just how it works.

Jon forgot his bag :D :P

I'm very obsessed with Mr Ronson :) I tried to stand up for a minority group I'm part of, and I had to delete my Google account because I was attacked by trolls. I don't understand them at all. Freedom of speech is not an excuse for senseless mean-ness

Wow, it is really SICK the enjoyment people get from shaming. This really affected me and I don't do Twitter, IG, FB. I watch UKposts and see this happening but not as much on that grand a scale. I am truly sorry if anything I've ever said shamed anyone, please forgive me. My goodness this is horrible, PEOPLE truly ARE ANIMALS.

Entering Twitter or Facebook is diving into the whirls of opinions and emotions that are expressed in there. We just have to be aware of that and choose consciously to participate in drama and intrigue or not and where to draw personal lines to protect our own sanity.

Publisher to Jon... " You could have picked up your book a few more times... sales, sales sales..!"🤣

Like Jon and his work. Think he's highlighted a lot of very big problems with social media. But I also think that we need a sort of unbiased researcher to really look at this. Jon's a liberal (as am I), and I think that makes it difficult for him to really tackle the fact that this is very much a problem of the left. He talks about the 'very good, very liberal' Mother Jones, and how even 'good, liberal people' like him can be 'shamers'. But they aren't the exception. They are the rule. Clickbait journalists and left wing activists. It is the Gawkers, the Huffington Posts, the Helen Lewises. It is the people who have absolute certainty in their moral high ground who feel they have the right to crusade. That needs to be addressed, and Jon skirts around it.

I never knew Benjamin Linus was a journalist!

Jon Ronson comes in with a backpack, and throws it under a bench. When he leaves, he forgets the backpack and leaves it behind.

Absolutely I don't think people want apologies that would be too easy. They want a public hanging. Reminds me of the storys you hear in days gone by when they would do the public hanging and the whole town would come out, men women and children, and they would be cheering and having like a carnival with food and drinks etc. SICK

So funny and so self aware, a fine chap.

I first found out about this man shortly after a bad breakup. My ex liked to play the victim, manipulating people by making them feel guilty and shaming them into doing what he wanted them to. He didn't mean any malice, he was just in pain, and he was hellbent on blaming everyone else, myself included, in stead of taking responsibility for his life. Many times I would refuse to feel sorry for him. I would tell him that I supported him and would help him but that he had to get up and do something about the things that made him sad. Reach out to old friends, he'd pushed away, make a career chance if he didn't want to stay in his chosen profession etc. He would get angry, accuse me of being cold, because it felt bad when I called him out. I thought I was doing him a favor. He didn't see it that way. I ended up cheating on him and breaking up the very next day. That's a bad thing to do. I shouldn't have told him but I thought it was the right thing to do at the time. I ended up blurting it out in a less than sympathetic way. He was hurt and angry, and e month later I got a long letter from him where he explained to me that I was suffering from narcissistic personality disorder. He went into gruesome detail, psychoanalyzing me in a way that made me doubt my own heart and mind. He was in therapy and claimed that his therapist, who'd never met me, had made the diagnosis. He started warning people who ran in the same circles as the both of us against talking to me. The reality is much more complicated and nuanced, but the moment people hear that you cheated, you are the villain of the story - at least in the eyes of anyone who doesn't know you. In the beginning I was determined to explain to him that he was wrong. I'd loved him and I was gutted that he really believed all of these things about me. I couldn't. He'd made up his mind and anything I did or said he'd use to reinforce his ideas in one way or another. I have later realized that his unwillingness to see me as anything but an unfeeling bitch is just another excuse for him not to take responsibility for his own mistakes. I feel sorry for him. Society has made it so hard for us to be open about our own flaws moral shortcomings. We throw stones in an attempt to divert attention onto others. But it only makes us feel worse. The more impossibly high the standard we set for others, the more impossibly high is the standard we fail to live up to ourselves. I love the line: "We want to destroy people, but we don't want to feel bad about it". It's sad but true.

Love Jon Ronson! (Though I might say that, although we are both straight men, he is the only other hetero male I've ever seen who is camper than I... And that annoys me because he does it better than I do...) I shall now go and post something hateful about him on Twitter... Take THAT! Ronson! *(hits Jon with my man-bag*) xx SF

This has no audio for me here in the UK, i've tried it on different quality settings and in different browsers, Anyone else with the same issue?

he forgot his backpack on the floor lol

Frame 28:15 The truth is that what we are not a "bubble of irrational" within social media. It is a bloody dirigible the size of Cleveland.

The guy at 49:10 looks like Elijah Wood :)

His speech sounds a lot like that Ted Talk!!

"Can I just say 'it's about fucking time I talked at the Oxford Union." 1 like, 1 prayer.

The Adria versus Hank shame quotient differential reminds me of the scene in 'Band of Brothers' when some Dutch women who collaborated with the Nazis are having their heads shaved and a local man says to one of the American soldiers something like - "you think that's bad, the men who collaborated were shot". Maybe being shot would have been less shameful or cruel.

Is that Louis Theroux in the audience? @33:00 middle right in the black jumper with the red and white stripes?

John Bain (Totalbiscuit) has recently left twitter because the shaming and hate he gets continuously has caused him heath problems and has forced him to go into therapy.

Jon is very brave considering he believes he has an anxiety disorder.

7:31

Scrolling through these comments wondering why no one seemed to notice what looks like Louis Theroux in the audience.

20 members of the shame brigade disliked this video.

When it comes to Adria I think she kinda deserved what happened, she tried to ruin someone's life because of a stupid joke. The same 'mechanism' she was trying to feed Hank to destroyed her, that's what she deserved for trying to inflict that on him.

Powerful Joe Rogan quote to close the speech out

shit shit shit shit, this would NOT be a conversation in a gulag

he forgot his bag as he left...

If you were going to design a cartoon character to ask the feminist question, it would look exactly like the woman who asked it. Is it an active desire to conform? An active attempt to be a stereotype? I have always found the conformity of some groups to their own stereotypes to be baffling.

Going to Africa. Hope I don't get Aids. Don't worry. I'm white!

machete dont tweet,me neither

And your point is?

We really haven't evolved very much as a human race have we ...in fact in many ways we seem to be moving backwards

I do love Jon Ronson but I wish he didn't do that thing wherere he goes "my friend Adam Curtis" or "my friend Clive Stafford-Smith", for example. He rarely (or never) refers to his friend John or Dave who aren't well-known and highly-regarded people.

I see Louis Theroux in the audience

He really should find more ways to say "he/she said" - "online shaming" I said, "Oh did you read that piece in the NYT?" She enquired, "I wrote it!" I exclaimed against my better judgement "Oh you must be so happy" she replied grinning. "Actually I'm not" I insisted wholeheartedly, "Why not?" She shrieked in bewilderment "Because there's a backlash with people calling me a racist" I proclaimed in frustration "So what do you want?" She asked me reassuringly. "Xanax!?" I joked jadedly. Possibly not detecting the underlying sarcasm, she scrambled inside her bag without hesitation and after a few seconds that lasted longer than they should, she lay forth her doctors pad and wrote me a prescription for 60 Xanax...

The fore last question about who does the shaming is simple to answer. People on the left to by far the most shaming as they like to claim the moral high ground. People in the right do more of the trolling.

He forgot his bag :(

Excellent talk.

Why's everyone goto drop the f-bomb at the Oxford union, these days?

but is it effective in changing behaviour? Thinking of that rotten dentist that shot that lion.....just said the other day that it was time to bring back shaming, now I'm rethinking it, except for that dentist. I don't tweet,need to defend against that impulse. I think its a defense against the powerlessness we feel to affect change

Bloody Racist! [joking, what a very intelligent man, thanks Jon for provoking serious thought.]

He's still regurgitating social justice ideology even though he's now being burned by the flames it fuels. There's a part of me that wants to click the like button. It's the same part that wants to watch the world burn down.

I blame thus lack of morality in our culture is the removal of Christian ethics in our households and the lack of role models in our lives - either parent, politicians, or pop culture.

WTFU

"Black lives matter is great and important." Boy I think Jon is rethinking this one today.

Ugh, if only he understood that this shaming comes *from* social justice. It's not the ugly side of it, social justice *is* that ugly,. It just shows up more clearly in the public shaming. But this shaming goes on constantly in all layers of the social justice clique, damaging them and everyone around them. It's a cancer.

He forgot his backpack as he left. Not so smart after all.

8 years on and it just got worse

The interviewer at the end is terrible.

He always reminds me of a less funny, less likeable Louis Theroux

The English people here are not an attractive bunch.🤭 I agree with him on one thing for sure. I too LOVE JON SNOW, King of the north🗡.

People who laugh = horrrible people...

Dodgy character, full of off the shelf manipulative tricks: ''Like all of us(the temerity) .....baboon'-no buster, 'we' didn't; tune in, turn off.

The real problem is the awful puritanism of the PC crowd. The sad thing is that Mr. Ronson is nothing but a preacher who is doubling down on the puritan way of thinking. This is making matters worse.

God he always tells the same stories and tells them exactly the same in every occasion...

WTF? You can’t be a journalist and politically correct, however you can be politically correct and a propagandist.

"Black Lives Matter is important" ... ehm, no.