Twitter is fiction. The latest outrage is driven by deliberate ignorance, by refusing to see it from the opposing point of view, by blocking everyone who doesn't share your outrage, by creating a filter bubble.
Trying to see things from the other point of view is just moral corruption, and maybe you secretly support this bad thing. Purity and virtuousness means ignorance, that we cleanse the net from any detail that would lessen the outrage.
By the way, the outages I'm talking about are the ones that upset everybody today but which disappear tomorrow to be replaced by the next outrage. I'm not talking about the George Floyd homicide.
I've already seen tweets outraged at the top tweet in this thread, which just proves the point. They probably assume I was referring to the George Floyd incident. I wasn't. I'm referring to something new that blows up tomorrow and is forgotten a couple days later.
When you are outraged daily about everything, even things that don't aren't nearly as outrageous on closer scrutiny, it means that truely outrageous things (like standing on a black man's throat for 8 minutes) lose their potency.
