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# Mere Fidelity: Our Culture of Public Shaming - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/mere-fidelity-culture-public-shaming/
- Published: 2015-02-23T06:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-18T16:54:45.000Z
- Description: What should we make of our new culture of public shaming? Mere Fidelity discusses a growing trend .
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson

We have a growing culture of public shaming. [Or at least that’s one possible conclusion from an interesting NY Times essay on the phenomenon.](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?%5Fr=0&ref=mereorthodoxy.com) We decided that we should take up the question of what such public shaming means for us as Christians. So we did.

[Jonathan Chait’s essay on “political correctness” also makes an appearance or two, so it’s worth reading as well](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com).

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