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> we often raise issues of justice and equity not to advance meaningful social causes but to generate positive attention for ourselves by denigrating others.

It's hard to differentiate between someone pretending to be morally outraged or offended and someone who genuinely is. If one really likes to get attention, and light "fires" around them, there is no real downside to pretending to be deeply offended or morally outraged. Who is going to prove it wrong? But look at all excitement and fireworks it can cause.