spicierobsession:

“There’s a kind of self-righteousness to the ultra-left that is hard for me to stomach.”

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Reminds me of this:

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.

via http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/01/moral-outrage-is-self-serving

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