At least in this Scott post, these examples don’t feel like they fall into the “unnecessary political examples” category. Like, it’s not that Scott is explaining some economics concept and in that context is using these quotes, he is analyzing political discourse and in that context, taking care to sample from enough different populations to make it clear he isn’t doing so with a political agenda (or at least no obvious political agenda that would fall along these lines).
If you are trying to give real examples of social shaming, it’s structurally important for the example to be something that has societal backing and a large enough interest group behind it that it seems plausible the shaming could work. There is still IMO virtue in abstracting things away, though the alternative of sampling from enough contradictory perspectives has a similar effect.
At least in this Scott post, these examples don’t feel like they fall into the “unnecessary political examples” category. Like, it’s not that Scott is explaining some economics concept and in that context is using these quotes, he is analyzing political discourse and in that context, taking care to sample from enough different populations to make it clear he isn’t doing so with a political agenda (or at least no obvious political agenda that would fall along these lines).
If you are trying to give real examples of social shaming, it’s structurally important for the example to be something that has societal backing and a large enough interest group behind it that it seems plausible the shaming could work. There is still IMO virtue in abstracting things away, though the alternative of sampling from enough contradictory perspectives has a similar effect.