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What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care? (sh.itjust.works)

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[+] AskewLord@piefed.social -10 points 3 months ago* (12 children)

pretty much everything.

outrage is just stupid and pointless. all it really is jerking your own ego off and it's a form of getting high on your own supply.

i think my favorite part is like, caring about an issue, but because you won't fly off the handle into a violent verbal outburst about it, you're clearly a nazi/facist/whatever. especially if you like would like to discuss it in an informed or nuanced way that might elucidate it or provide a sustainable path for progress... no we can't have that.

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Outrage is why things change. It's why women can vote. It's why slavery in the US ended. It's why being gay is no longer a crime.

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[+] AskewLord@piefed.social -8 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

oh, that's weird. i thought it those things change because people vote for laws that change those things.

i didn't know sitting around being very angry changes the world. i thought changing the world required going out into the world and doing things, and you don't have to be angry to do that, but you do... have to do it.

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[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Sure, black slaves were given equal rights because they politely asked and then white people simply voted for it!

John Brown was first and foremost outraged by the lot of his fellow humans. That anger pushed him to act. Same goes with the British revolution, the American revolution, the French revolution and the Russian revolution. Outrage, anger then action.