Private citizens shamed un-enlisted men with white feathers during WWI.

Evidence

It should be noted that the effort had some private actors as well. A group known as the “Order of the White Feather,” for instance, organized women to shame un-enlisted men by presenting “slackers” with a white feather as a sign of cowardice. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1195

Categorization

• SHARE: The white feather as social shaming technology is a sharp, narrow titbit for anyone into social coercion or WWI cultural history.
• SEED: An essay on how civilian peer pressure functioned as a distributed propaganda mechanism cheaply nested inside the official campaign.
• XREF: connects to: Governments manufactured WWI public opinion by controlling information flow — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 167

Broader Connections

• Governments manufactured WWI public opinion by controlling information flow #expands (0.82) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 167