It wasn't like this a few years ago. Outraged responses are a feature of outrage culture, which is pretty recent. Media have been pushing it to drive clicks, and sell ads on cable TV, for years. Grifters push their instagrams, their vlogs, their books.

I think the decline started when University produced generation after generation of supposedly educated people that had no skill other than fanning the flames.

And social media has been the A-bomb against rational, paused discourse.