Before social media, protest was provocative and empowering. Outrage used to mean something – now it’s just another hashtag
• Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles is a BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter
Everyone is offended by everything. It’s exhausting. Keeping up with all the noninclusive, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, ageist, cultural-appropriating, body-shaming propaganda that seems to litter the social media age.
In 2018, almost anything apparently is subject to the scrutiny of one marginalised eye or another. Being outraged allows you to take the moral high ground. It reaffirms your righteousness. It lets you say: “I am offended and therefore I am principled.” It lets you jump on the bandwagon and pledge allegiance to the latest campaign on your timeline. It gives you a vehicle to add your name to the narrative. It proves that you are following current affairs, albeit from the comfortable vantage point of your Instagram feed. It allows you to place yourself on the virtuous side of the conversation. It says: “I am woke.”
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