This poem was originally posted on Medium on September 17, 2018. The inspiration for this poem was the frustration I felt after noticing that the meanest people on Twitter are using it as a machine to manufacture outrage and hate.
I read The Outrage Machine on Words of Jen episode 059.
Made a Twitter account
Filled with all that you hate
Anonymously used to
Instigate and aggravate
“Paid protesters” you scream
With no evidence shown
Terrified to consider
Views different from your own
The same GIF is posted
As everyone else
By those who insist
They can think for themselves
“Don’t they have jobs?”
You facetiously implore
Letting everyone know
How much you hate the poor
Protesters aren’t “toddlers”
Throwing a tantrum
They’re fighting for rights
You’re refusing to grant them
A series of numbers
After your name
Means you are a bot
With no right to complain
The outrage machine
Requires its fuel
Supplied to it daily
By furious fools
Your stream of hate speech
Is easily thwarted
With just a few clicks
Blocked and reported
In the dead of the night
Can’t hide from what’s true
Without all that rage
You’d have nothing to do
The Outrage Machine is a post written by Jen Thorpe on Book of Jen and is not allowed to be copied to other sites.
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