This is a little funny, but in the specific context of the Amish and related groups “shunning” is a specific and very negative term.
A person is shunned, usually under order of the religious authority of their community, when they’ve broken the rules of the community. Practices vary by community (in fact, to my knowledge several sect differences are based at least partially on how the sect practices shunning), but usually no one can eat with, do business with, or otherwise help the shunned person. They are isolated and have support withdrawn from them, with the specific intention that they are then forced to return to strict compliance with the community’s rules.
The Amish and most similar Anabaptist organizations are high-control groups and cults, and they punish members who seek to leave.
Like, this is exactly what the posts about “turn off your phone if it’s going to put you in danger!” were worried would happen.
This is not even slightly funny. Go on, someone explain the punchline for “abuse victims only means of safe contact with the outside world was discovered by the abusers”. Cus thats what this is.
