Mob Mentality
After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I conclude that mob mentality led many people to doing many disgusting things that they normally wouldn't have done otherwise. For example Lawrence Beitler depicts a picture of a lynching of two black men, underneath the bloody, and broken men is a mob of white citizens. In the mob there are men, women, and children smiling and laughing at the spectacle in front of them showing no remorse whatsoever. This mob carried the two men from the jailhouse beating them and eventually killing them, then they proceeded in hanging them from a tree for everyone to see what they had accomplished. Another idea that supports this conclusion for instance, is what S.E Smith illustrates in “What
After reading and viewing the mob mentality pieces, I conclude that mob mentality led many people to doing many disgusting things that they normally wouldn't have done otherwise. For example Lawrence Beitler depicts a picture of a lynching of two black men, underneath the bloody, and broken men is a mob of white citizens. In the mob there are men, women, and children smiling and laughing at the spectacle in front of them showing no remorse whatsoever. This mob carried the two men from the jailhouse beating them and eventually killing them, then they proceeded in hanging them from a tree for everyone to see what they had accomplished. Another idea that supports this conclusion for instance, is what S.E Smith illustrates in “What