outrage porn
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outrage porn
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Coined by New York Times writer Tim Kreider to emphasize the way such writing panders to people's self-indulgent desire to feel outraged.
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Media that is written in order to provoke feelings of outrage and righteous indignation.
Holonym: outrage culture
Similar: ragebait
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