JOIN THE HUNT, OR BE AMONG THE HUNTED: “It is now considered not just to be a public declaration of support but indeed a very public declaration of support for someone to say ‘I decline to heed or to echo malign and false accusations against a man I hardly know, as it is none of my business, and I hate falsehoods’?”

Since most of those who engage in mobbing can’t imagine embracing a principle bigger than “hurray for my tribe,” it’s unsurprising that this sort of attitude is incomprehensible to them.