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The outrage factory: leadership in the age of social media
Jun 5, 2020
Over the past decade, the rise of social media has given wings to western notions about the sanctity of the individual voice. Technical and scientific expertise is becoming marginalised and disregarded. In this fast-changing context, today's leaders must ask themselves some hard questions.
There is a dark secret about the universal solidarity felt by people all around the world for the Black Lives Matter movement and the protestors mourning George Floyd’s murder. That dark secret is that this solidarity is not universal. Not at all.
Millions of George Floyd’s fellow Americans do not share the aims, or objectives or even the spirit of the Black Lives Matter movement. Those that claim they do will caveat their support. They will say, yes: “All lives matter!” But Black Lives Matter isn’t about all lives, and isn’t a contradiction of all lives.
So why the caveat? The caveat is not a supplement. It is a subtraction. If you’re black (or brown, or coloured in any way), this feels like an outrageous and alien concept. But the most important thing to remember is that for everything you feel about something, there is an unspeakable alternative, that is as passionate, and as truthful (to those that believe it), and as important as what you feel.
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