Selective Outrage - Quick reflexes, we don't want to be cancelled for having the wrong opinion | Race in Jamaica
So, I've had some time to think about it and Chris Rock was right. Well, to me that is...after-all it is my opinion. Read that again, I didn't say Chris Rock was right about everything. We must ask the follow-up question, "What, pray tell, was Chris Rock right about?" In our westernized, hyper social media dictated society, we are suffering a scourge of selective outrage. Selective outrage is the tendency for people to reaffirm or confirm beliefs that reinforce their biases or preconceived notions. But, more than this, I would go further to say that selective outrage has become a part of our outward projection of who we want the world to see us as. We no longer hear an event or story in context. We see everything based on our heuristics and nothing else. We jump head first into projection, cancelation and a defense of our opinion against the opinions of others. Opinions are different from facts...