pile-on
See also: pile on
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- An argument or fight in which one side is greatly advantaged by being more numerous or more closely allied than the other side.
- 2019 November 19, Brigid Delaney, “It's the era of the Twitter pile-on. Isn't there something healthier we can do with our rage?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- We are in a time of never-ending Twitter pile-ons. Sometimes the criticism is warranted: Twitter can be a place for marginalised voices to amplify or bring attention to an injustice they have suffered.
- 2020 December 6, Marie O'Halloran, “Social media ‘pile on’ against Sinn Féin critics does not aid party, Ó Broin says”, in The Irish Times[2]:
- A social media “pile-on” against anyone who criticises Sinn Féin does not aid or assist the party, its housing spokesman has said.
- 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian[3]:
- Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.