
Outraged
Why Everyone is Shouting and No One is Talking
by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
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Pub Date 9 Jul 2020 | Archive Date 9 Sep 2020
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) | Bloomsbury Publishing
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Description
'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson
'A book that had me hollering, nodding and questioning at the same time' Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie
'A witty, ever-so-thoughtful guide to getting our outrage back on track' Pandora Sykes
‘Everyone with a social media account should read this book’ Bella Mackie
Presenter and DJ Ashley Dotty Charles explores our age of outrage, and how it's debasing civil discourse.
Ours is a society where many practice provocation, the tactless but effective tool of pedalling outrage - and we all too quickly take the bait. If outrage has become abundant, how can we make activism more effective?
There is still much to be outraged by in our final frontier - the gender pay gap, racial bias, gun control - but in order to enact change and become more effective online, we must learn to channel our responses.
This is the essential guide to living through the age of outrage.
Advance Praise
‘Funny, nuanced and wonderful’
Jon Ronson
‘Outraged is as hilarious as it is smart, and as insightful as it is provocative. A book that had me hollering, nodding and questioning at the same time'
Candice Carty-Williams
‘Outraged is a timely reminder to keep perspective. To question who we actually help when we rush to yell online. Dotty writes with humour and measure, always keen to explore rather than condemn. Everyone with a social media account should read this book’
Bella Mackie
‘Books about wokeness are typically written by a very specific type of conservative figure. Dotty rips up the rulebook in order to write a thought-provoking but never provocative book about the Outrage Era: how did we get here? Where have we gone wrong? … A witty and ever-so-thoughtful guide to getting our outrage back on track’
Pandora Sykes
'This superb polemic is a penetrating exploration of the sorry state of outrage in our culture. Through interviews with Rachel Dolezal, Katie Hopkins and others, Charles shows that by so quickly leaping on the outrage bandwagon, we are actually debasing the quality of our civil discourse . . . I underlined something on almost every page' Bookseller
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781526605030 |
PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 272 |
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