Judge Ted Poe's critics-like the civil rights group the ACLU-argued to him the dangers of these ostentatious punishments, especially those that were carried out in public. They said it was no coincidence that public shaming had enjoyed such a renaissance in Mao's China and Hitler's Germany and the Ku Klux Klan's America-it destroys souls, brutalizing everyone, the onlookers included, dehumanizing them as much as the person being shamed.
( Jon Ronson )
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