January 28, 2017 archive

Outrage Fatigue

The concept of compassion fatigue is well known. If someone is inundated with successive tragedies and requests for assistance, the impulse is to crawl into a hole and ignore any subsequent pleas. Recent events bring up a new buzzword: Outrage fatigue. Outrage fatigue occurs when you’re constantly bombarded with news, tweets, emails, and the like …

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