The article linked a few posts downthread discusses how to deal with being mobbed in the workplace.
But there's also something in this, I believe, about why facts and evidence do nothing to convince "the other side" of their error-riddled way of thinking:
"Leadership has given the signal that you are to be eliminated and it is okay to attack you, the mob has formed and the bear is coming your way. The more you fight the mob, the more force will be used to compel your elimination –
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