Coronavirus and Selective Outrage By Karen Kataline Selective outrage doesn’t work well unless you have liberals and leftists marching in lock step. Didn't they used to believe in "doing your own thing?" Now, they believe we must all behave and think alike. We must hate all the people they want us to hate and give a pass to those they want us to see as perpetual victims. We know all too well the names with which they'll bully us if we don't: racist, sexist, homophobe, xenophobe. If you're branded with those suspiciously bigoted labels, you deserve to lose your business, your reputation and be an example to others that you'd better not deviate from the selective outrage narrative. That includes ostracizing anyone who questions the unprecedented shutdown of the country because of coronavirus. Liberals and leftists used to believe we should question everything - especially, authority. Now they take orders from government bureaucrats as if in a collectivist cult. Freedom lovers don't mind if they want to be in that cult. The problem is always that they want to force you to be in it.