Apr 2, 2022
All of the performative moral outrage that we see is self-righteousness. When you think about the difference between righteousness and self-righteousness; righteousness is a real response to injustice, and self-righteousness is proving to others that you care about an issue. I saw someone put up something on twitter, it was a response to someone showing the receipts of the money they gave to different causes. When we get to a place where we have to broadcast what we’re doing to fight for causes that we believe in, we’re lost. It’s so performative at that point.