Outrage About Outrage

The cluster centers on debates about whether commenters are exhibiting overblown outrage or extreme reactions to an original post or comment, often dismissing it as manufactured controversy or meta-outrage.

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Sample Comments

robbrit Jul 12, 2018 View on HN

Seems like this thread is a few steps away from outrage about outrage :)

refuse Feb 11, 2023 View on HN

I'm not seeing anything outrageous here except that people are so upset for somebody disagreeing with them.

peeters Jan 13, 2025 View on HN

I think you're reaching for outrage. I don't see anywhere in this comment's ancestry where anyone said anything resembling that.

staticassertion Oct 13, 2022 View on HN

Weird, that feels like an extreme reaction to a single comment.

drivebyacct2 Jan 20, 2012 View on HN

Sorry, it wasn't so much a reaction to the content of the post as much as the pseudo-"outrage" expressed by some here.

rganguly Dec 19, 2012 View on HN

Nice take on this, I think the outrage is a bit overblown here and seems to have taken on an angry mob with pitchforks mentality.

t0astbread Sep 24, 2019 View on HN

No, of course not. I'm not saying it's a good reaction but I can understand why some people might react like that to this topic.

rchaud Dec 8, 2021 View on HN

Where's this 'outrage' that you speak of?

the_why_of_y Oct 6, 2014 View on HN

The outrage is obviously very real, otherwise we would not have this discussion; perhaps "poorly substantiated outrage" would be more fitting.

lawnchair_larry Dec 24, 2020 View on HN

Can you elaborate on the uproar?