Manufactured Outrage

A falsified righteous outrage at things that are basically unimportant and meaningless, frequently employed by politicians, political activists, or the media. Politicians and talking heads use it to garner support for their causes, to claim the moral high ground and to tar their opponents; the media often just uses it in a cynical bid to increase ratings.

Manufactured outrages of note include Nipplegate, the Monica Lewinski scandal, the 2009 tea partys, backmasked satanic lyrics, lapel pin controversies...

Just about any time you hear any politician, activist, or radio show host getting outraged about anything, really. The louder and angrier they get, the harder they're working at manufacturing it.

by Aquillion2 May 20, 2009

outface

to deal bravely with a difficult situation or opponent

Amin braced himself to outface his mortal enemy.

by AMIN October 24, 2013

Are you ready for the outrage?

Commonly used before an event that will cause controversy begins.

Are you ready for the outrage?

"Yeah boy lets do this"

by polopolo January 16, 2010

We’re out of a scheduled power outage

When you’re tired but you cannot sleep, or you’ve missed your opportunity to sleep.

Friend: “You need to go to bed it’s late”
You: “I would, but we’re out of a scheduled power outage”

by Ymlnmsc85 November 7, 2020

Selective Outrage

1) Outrage against a moment/incident that is aligned to your ideology
2) Not being neutral
3) Using your own filter in mind to accept few news and rejecting another

John - "Hey you know that, a priest was lynched by people infront of police; I guess he was doing robbery anyways. Why so hue and cry?!"
Again John - "Shout! Shout! Police officers killed two people in custody without any proof."
Sam - "You are full of selective outrage."

by stpune June 26, 2020

power outage baby

Years ago, the power went out in San Francisco for a long time. Nine months later, there was a certain increase in birthrate. If you were born nine months aftert a power outage, you are a power outage baby.

Thomas is a power outage baby.

by Julsey Malone April 16, 2008

Outage

whenever Playstation Network has an "Outage" the community goes mad. Outage is another word for a Crash, Server crash or such.

Oh shit PSN just had another Outage
how long is this Outage gonna last this time?
who coused that Outage? hackers?

by YT/Glasid4131 May 20, 2011