When fox news expresses outrage over someone on the left doing or saying something that the right has been doing and saying to a far, far more egregious degree for years with no complaints from fox news, it is clearly an artificial, manufactured outrage.
When fox news launched a day long tirade about John Stewart being a "racist" for mocking Herman Cain's idiotic remarks about only passing small bills if he were president despite having never said a word about the viciously racist anti Obama signs the teabaggers carried in ralliess, it was clearly manufactured outrage. (And Stewart spanked them for it the next day!)
by professor tanhauser August 4, 2011
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A symptom of the Internet age and the neverending cycle of overreaction, bitterness and hostility. It is not necessarily entirely a reflection of the proliferation of controversy over minor events, given that the news is also filled with many shocking events of great magnitude. The fact that it is easy to forget what mind-numbingly stupid thing Donald Trump said two weeks ago is also a symptom of outrage inflation.
A symptom of the Internet age and the neverending cycle of overreaction, bitterness and hostility. It is not necessarily entirely a reflection of the proliferation of controversy over minor events, given that the news is also filled with many shocking events of great magnitude. The fact that it is easy to forget what mind-numbingly stupid thing Donald Trump said two weeks ago is also a symptom of outrage inflation.
We'll all soon forget that time Trump nearly declared war by mistake thanks to outrage inflation and the 24-hour news cycle.
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A common Left-Wing tactic to incite "change" in a known policy or cause. Also used as a mudslinging device in order to undermine Right-Wingers
The Democrat Politician revealed his Manufactured Outrage at the cutting of trees in order to SAVE THE PLANET. He was further "outraged" by a myriad of things: polar bears, sea otters, Styrofoam, swamp land, the War on Terror, certain books, the conservative talk shows on a.m. radio, the lack of rights for Gays, the lack of rights for animals, the lack of rights for women...and children...and illegal immigrants, the use of the word "God" anywhere, the "right" to abort babies, corporations, banks, SUVs, hunters, guns, bibles, big cars, oil-production, and the over-spending of the Bush Administration. Of course, the over-spending of the Obama Administration was OK, though. A few things he wasn't outraged about: Term Limits for elected officials, tort reform, a balanced budget, and freedom.
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The state of being outraged by things that didn't particularly bother you a couple of months ago. Turning a blind eye to contradictory facts while you rush to virtue signal and express sympathy with whatever the popular cause is at the time on the social medias. Though at the same time doing absolutely nothing of any practical value to tackle the issue.
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Offendism; the act of spending one's life looking for things to be offended about.
The state of being outraged by things that didn't particularly bother you a couple of months ago. Turning a blind eye to contradictory facts while you rush to virtue signal and express sympathy with whatever the popular cause is at the time on the social medias. Though at the same time doing absolutely nothing of any practical value to tackle the issue.
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Offendism; the act of spending one's life looking for things to be offended about.
"We need to rewrite history, start over again, we need to seek forgiveness for the past wrongs....."
"Dave, calm down, you weren't like this last year, stop playing the outrageism card"
"Dave, calm down, you weren't like this last year, stop playing the outrageism card"
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Temporarily appearing to do something about a perceived or actual problem during the short time it is relevant in the current social media news cycle and/or while you're pissed about it. Usually done while voicing your opinions on the matter in question into an online echo chamber
Temporarily appearing to do something about a perceived or actual problem during the short time it is relevant in the current social media news cycle and/or while you're pissed about it. Usually done while voicing your opinions on the matter in question into an online echo chamber
After the Ray Rice video was released Eric enganged in so much outragetivism about it I unfriended him.
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