Outrage makes you feel good, but doesn’t change minds | Sonia Sodha
by Sonia Sodha from on (#2HVX9)
The left must learn that moral outrage will never win an argument
It took but a quick click, but even as I joined the collective expression of disgust on social media at last week's Daily Mail "Legs-it" front page I felt a bit sheepish. Not because juxtaposing a headline that posed the question of who had better legs next to a photo of Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon wasn't deeply sexist, but because it was a futile gesture, and I knew it.
We lefties have impeccable pedigree when it comes to righteous outrage. It has a time and a place: there's something life-affirming and motivating about asserting your membership of a tribe with common values. But it also carries something of the guilty pleasure: the smug satisfaction of earning your virtue-signalling stripes in our social media age.
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