People accept any suffering they believe is inevitable, blocking political outrage

Evidence

People are evidently inclined to grant legitimacy to anything that is or seems inevitable no matter how painful it may be. Otherwise the pain might be intolerable. The conquest of this sense of inevitability is essential to the development of politically effective moral outrage. For this to happen, people must perceive and define their situation as the consequence of human injustice: a situation they need not, cannot, and ought not to endure. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 186

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pins down the core diagnostic concept: that submission is maintained by a sense of inevitability, not by force.
• XREF: Mirrors the reader’s own thesis that attentional extraction is dismissed as natural — the same inevitability mechanism. — connects to: Genuine hope rests on disrespect for entrenched, durable suffering, not on guarantees.; People can absorb political problems into purely personal solutions — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1075
• CANDY: A compact, quotable statement of why people endure injustice — good conversation material.