We are a social people and we develop and learn from each other. For the most part that is a good thing and that has led to the development of society. As the world develops and grows we no longer live within isolated communities and those communities that are isolated often start falling behind. With exposure comes new ideas, thoughts, people, and ways of looking at the world. Not everyone is going to agree with those environmental changes, not everyone is going to want to change, and when we mix that with bigotries and mental health we might find Clan Based Toxic Dysfunction rising (I'm going to use the acronym CBTD. CBTD looks official but its just letters because I don't want to write it out.)
CBTD is caused by lots of factors but from my experience it looks like it has a mixture of toxic personalities, bigotries, isolated homogenous groups, and poor values among some officials who view taxpayer positions as extension of these networks (Kind of a problem in this situation.). In other words, the flavor, nature, beliefs, cultural outlook, ethnicity/background, lifestyle, etc. become all encompassing to the point where there is a distortion of world perception and the value of others outside of the group (i.e. the "other" as developed through social anxiety of others).
Such groups seem to grow in environments where certain personalities dominate long socialized groups to poor behaviors and perceptions. Some of their behaviors are fear driven and its relatively easy for a toxic souls to rally them to some perceived social cause (It's funny because its a little like when a person has low self esteem and puts oneself above others even though they have little/no justification when you compare actual apples to apples. It looked likes this happened on a group level.)
It is that domination of others through manipulation that leads to all types of problems that are hard to manage when they morph (Something the initiators desired and they knew they were immune from it.). It appears the same distorted viewpoint of the world may have come from a line of thinking about themselves within their tight networks fostered since childhood (i.e. it could be any long socialized group. In this hypothetical case more or less related to sports playing) and in turn throwing in a dominant toxic personality, mental health, financial gain, and the right kind of target one begins to find the moral social order going out the window.
This is where appropriate backstops come into play. If there are no backstops, it potentially leaves the victims/targets of CBTD isolated where they must fend for themselves (Why we have oaths to help keep officials on the right path.). Remember this backstop issue not only lacking but also moving down a dark path of clan support. Keep it in mind that as we learn from this situation we become more aware of how to avoid such group aggressions and inappropriate use of official positions to support those poor behaviors in the future. We can talk about that more later.
The last sort of two ideas I want to leave you with is the moral code that is supported for emulation when aggression and crimes are rewarded financially and socially. Likewise, one could think about the encouragement of future coordinated behaviors and how that stemmed from not addressing some of the mental health signs early of dark triad manipulative behaviors that became apparent in an environment where racial and religious anchored rumor spreading may have followed years of prior rumor spreading pathways (In other words, I think this group was very good at and accustomed to spreading dark rumors about others in the community to damage people. Some might even be unaware that some cultures believe that if you spread negative information knowing that it is unlikely to be true it is a type of defamation, moral crime, and shows the mindset of those who do it as simple. Inner group surrounded by easily manipulated wider group. )
The whole this is a sad affair but it can't be left to its own devices because there was general failure across the board leading to a need of some level of addressing and oversite.
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