The setup aroused grumbles and low jeers among the studio audience, a noise groaning with the sad weight of a discarded norm.
"On one billboard were pictures of very trendy middle-class white folks and it said: 'Turn your back on the norm.' That's sad".
Does this event portend a sad and dangerous devolving of societal norms where some fringe, marginalized people feel they have a license, even a duty, to kill those whose views they strongly disagree with?
There, flippant sexism and collective shaming was the norm, almost identical to the sad culture unearthed in Sydney.
"It's sad because my people think it's the norm.
The authors proposed that sad individuals have an enhanced perception of social norm violations and show diminished sensitivity to rewarding social signals, such as the proposal of a fair offer (Harlé et al., 2012).
"This is a sad reflection of how far Denmark has strayed from its historic support of international norms enshrined in the Refugee Convention.
The number of managers assigned to broadcast units became a sad joke and instead of considered argument management-speak, lampooned fortnightly by Private Eye, became the norm.
