Effective in peer shaming since it is a charge for which there is no defense. Same thing as a smear or as gossip. Some call it character assassination, although that's a term requiring a higher level of abstract reasoning than we find in today's public (or private) discussion. Slavery was a tired excuse fifty years ago.

Effective in peer shaming since it is a charge for which there is no defense. Same thing as a smear or as gossip. Some call it character assassination, although that's a term requiring a higher level of abstract reasoning than we find in today's public (or private) discussion.