Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance.
A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
-Eric Hoffer
When people publicly rage about perceived injustices that don't affect them personally, we tend to assume this expression is rooted in altruism—a "disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others."
But new research suggests that professing such third-party concern—what social scientists refer to as "moral outrage"—is often a function of self-interest, wielded to assuage feelings of personal culpability for societal harms or reinforce (to the self and others) one's own status as a Very Good Person.
-Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Converse or correspond with anyone on the Left long enough and it becomes obvious that they are just plan mad, especially at people who do not agree that they just know better than you do.
So their commentary is, "smug, predictable, dismissive," says Morrisey, "with all of the subtlety, wit, and artistry of a sledgehammer."
-Sense of Events
Social Justice Warriors Gone Crazy
The Character of the Left On Display
The Poster Girl For Campus Liberalism.
If oppression is the currency of social advantage, there will never be enough oppression to go around.
A TV reporter and cameraman were shot to death on live television Wednesday by their former colleague, a journalist who also recorded himself carrying out the killings and then posted the video on social media... Flanagan was described by Jeffrey Marks, WDBJ's president and general manager as an "an unhappy man" and "difficult to work with," always "looking out for people to say things he could take offense to."... According to the network, the man claiming to be Flanagan says in the "suicide note" that he bought a gun two days after the Charleston, South Carolina church shootings, seeking revenge for racial discrimination, sexual harassment and workplace bullying he said he suffered as a gay black man.
Liberals are perpetually offended by just about everything. Why? Because liberals have decided that being offended trumps logic, fact and every other argument that anyone can make. -John Hawkins
These people are no longer free-thinking individuals, capable of making decisions. They are, rather, individuals who have completely lost touch with reality.
Unable to cope with the weight of the world, they seek to unload it on others. It’s your fault, not theirs.
-"Dystopian" on Social Justice Warriors