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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Humans social signal all the time, in everything we do. Moral outrage is a form of signalling that’s as old as religion.
http://blogs.wgbh.org/innovation-hub...ordan-outrage/
(You’ll note the interview is not from right-wing social media)
Sometimes it can be a positive by spurring changes to behaviour. But in cases where we express moral outrage about actions in the past by renaming schools, it’s hard to see any likely positive outcomes. I mean it’s not as though there are people today campaigning for the sterilization of promiscuous girls drawing encouragement from an elementary school named Nellie McClung. So in the absence of any tangible positive outcome, all we’re left with is broadcasting our moral worthiness. |
You think Indigenous people, including the grandchildren of residential school survivors, who advocate for renaming the Langevin school are just broadcasting their own moral worthiness?