To protect/raise the status of you yourself, or of a group you identify with. I proposed in that comment that people might enjoy feeling righteous while watching out for the interests of themselves and their in-group.
So I can raise the status of my group by becoming a frequent complainer and encouraging my fellows to do likewise?
I won’t say that it never happens. I will say that the success prospects of that sort of strategy have been exaggerated of late.
So I can raise the status of my group by becoming a frequent complainer and encouraging my fellows to do likewise?
I won’t say that it never happens. I will say that the success prospects of that sort of strategy have been exaggerated of late.
Sure. See, for example, the rise in prominence of the Gnu Atheists (of which I am one).