Chronic outrage erodes the ability to grade disagreement by real danger

Evidence

We live in an age of outrage culture, and we are used to being outraged very quickly and radically rejecting everything that does not correspond to our own opinion. As a result, we then have no more room to differentiate between what does not correspond to our opinion and what is absolutely 100% dangerous and unacceptable. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 380

Categorization

• CANDY: Compact, quotable observation about outrage flattening all disagreement into one category.
• XREF: connects to: Moral outrage online substitutes for confronting offenders in person — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 456