It& #39;s probably terrible for my mental health and my general perceptions of the world but I can& #39;t look away from these self-criticism/struggle sessions threads

At first I thought the Cultural Revolution analogy was just a convenient shorthand, and hey, let& #39;s be honest, it& #39;s pretty common for right-liberals (like me) to fall back on Communism as a bogeyman

But it works so well. The accused apologises, criticises themself extensively, pledges to re-educate and "do better" in future.

The "attendees" basically deconstruct why the apology isn& #39;t good enough (it& #39;s never good enough), and makes it clear that nothing is forgiven or forgotten.

The crowd rebukes the accused, either in the passive-aggressive "educational" tone of the diversity consultant grifter, or sometimes just with plain insults. Follow-up questions are asked, sometimes with a sheen of politeness, sometimes not

Notice that nobody in this thread seems to realize or care that Twitter is a public platform, that is, of course, beside the point