High school audiences booed a candidate whose attack speech violated decorum norms

Evidence

But then, underneath the clapping, Yasmin heard it, a boo that spread across the auditorium and only increased in volume. Andrew went back to his seat looking confused. (Manal, a friend of both Andrew and Yasmin, told me, “People booed Andrew because his speech was all about ‘my opponent this, my opponent that.’ And Yasmin’s so very tiny. She looked so innocent.”) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 443

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ theme of audience reactions to norm violations — here a school crowd punishes an overly aggressive candidate.