“what often prevents people from protesting is not a lack of motivation to protest, but rather their feeling that they lack the legitimacy to do so.” They call this sense of legitimacy “psychological standing,” inspired by the concept of legal standing. You can’t bring a suit in the justice system simply because something offended your sensibilities—you’ve got to show that it affected you. The evidence that you were harmed gives you standing to bring a case. The young man who’s reluctant to join a protest against date rape may feel he lacks psychological standing, since he hasn’t been affected
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