"Yes, she does a bit of grandstanding," says Murphy, but there is an innate sense of justice and outrage to her questioning that strikes a chord with the public watching.
The government said Thursday that it would review the sentences imposed on two men convicted Tuesday in the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence, an 18-year-old black youth whose killing on a south London street, and the lapse of nearly two decades in bringing any of the white teenagers involved to justice, caused outrage across Britain.
Our collective sense of justice is outraged.
But when Hongwen and his colleagues discover that their American boss pays his American-educated Chinese manager vast sums in American dollars, their sense of justice is outraged.
Collins, Evans, and Higgins write about how decisions made by referees and officials inflect our feelings of justice, merit, and outrage.
In terms of strict justice, the bigger outrage is that De Kock was only following orders and those that gave them never had to pay the price.
After Mr. Strauss-Kahn was paraded before a scrum record crowd of photographers Monday, following his arrest on charges of attempted rape of a Manhattan hotel housekeeper, a former French justice minister expressed outrage at "a brutality, a violence, of an incredible cruelty".
Echoing Justice Scalia's outrage, religious conservatives throughout the nation were livid.
The knowing framing of social justice work as "outrage culture," which many defended the episode as adeptly skewering, is merely a way of erasing the offense that causes the outrage, like the gaslighting abusive boyfriend who calls all his exes "crazy" without referencing the poor treatment that elicited any erratic behavior from them.
In 1996, he outraged Justice Antonin Scalia by writing an opinion concurring in the court's decision to invalidate the Virginia Military Institute's men-only admissions policy.
