Ronson&#x27;s a cogent writer, but I can&#x27;t help think he&#x27;s suffering from cognitive dissonance. Perhaps because he still clings hopelessly to the idea that the modern concept of &quot;social justice&quot; is somehow beneficial, he keeps trying to find excuses for why mobbing, shaming, hate mobs, rushes to judgement and so forth could theoretically be okay in some situation and so we shouldn&#x27;t consider such behavior automatically bad.<p>To his immense credit, he doesn&#x27;t go around defending specific instances of hate mobbing, but his reluctance to fully commit to opposing the technique hampers whatever it is he&#x27;s attempting to accomplish.