outrage porn
English
editEtymology
editCoined by New York Times writer Tim Kreider to emphasize the way such writing panders to people's self-indulgent desire to feel outraged.
Noun
edit- Media that is written in order to provoke feelings of outrage and righteous indignation.
- 2013 November 23, Karolina Dean is an Ugly Brown Spic, “Pop music's race problem: How white artists profit from mocking hip-hop”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
- You can't write a Salon outrage porn piece without the word "problematic" being in the first couple of paragraphs somewhere.
- 2015 December 26, ajit, “Rage of the self-righteous Republic”, in unityinstruggle (Usenet):
- Anger is being exploited by TRP-driven purveyors of outrage porn, to strike at all possible newsworthy targets.
- 2015, M Compan, Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures:
- However, all of the above examples reflect the growth of "outrage porn" in contemporary social media, or stories that feed popular anger and indignation, and which sometimes lead to powerful action.
- 2016, Scott Sauls, Befriend: Create Belonging in an Age of Judgment, Isolation, and Fear, →ISBN, page 45:
- Outrage porn is not new. Similar to those who shame and publicly air their grievances today, the New Testament Pharisees were also known to look down on others with contempt.