People Are Mad At Patton Oswalt For The Wrong Reason

On the incoherent weirdness of online outrage

For a long time, I’ve been interested in people’s moral judgments — particularly in the ways those judgments can go haywire, be incoherent, lead to shaming or worse, and so on. That’s what first got me into Jonathan Haidt via The Righteous Mind, which got me into a lot of other social psychology, which arguably got me, well, here. I’m also interested in…