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I was recently listening to an episode of the Hidden Brain podcast titled “Screaming into the Void”, which dug into why people get so outraged about everything (and then others get outraged about the initial outrage, and on it goes).

You can listen to it here if you’d like; it’s a great episode!

Covington Catholic

One of the main stories they covered was the mess with Covington Catholic, and the levels of outrage around that. You had the initial outrage against the students until the full video came out, which found that the initial outrage was misplaced… which led to more outrage. If you don’t remember that story, this image may do the trick.

While the story itself involves a lot of nuance, the story about the story is that people were so eager to jump in with their outrage and try to get attention on social media that they didn’t wait long enough to see the truth.

Joe Biden forgot the pledge

I saw a similar story recently where Joe Biden apparently forgot the words to the Pledge of Allegiance. Here is the clip that went around virally:

https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1308134517081886720

It looks like he indeed messed up the words until you see it in context. If you watch the full speech (start around the…