The villain may do villainous things, but he feels that he is doing them for righteous reasons.
Even if you think you are refusing someone's generosity for "righteous" reasons, you are still being entirely ungracious by robbing them of the satisfaction of giving.
Bush has, in two terms, by handing the heart of the Republican Party to a block of religious extremists, made it OK to nominate a VP candidate who's ready to take creationism to the halls of academe, to prove cavemen feasted on barbecued dinosaur, and that somehow it's the Almighty who gets us into war for all the righteous reasons.
Here, she is on strong, righteous ground.
Not only is it morally righteous for reasons of equality and celebrating diversity, but also it's also smart business as all marketers realize the benefits to their toplines of embracing sexual, gender and racial minorities.
I'm not losing my shit and getting all righteous for no reason, I'm serious, this is basically the reckoning and if we don't do something we're going to get sucked down into the void, and then we'll be stuck in a huge, fiery canyon with Hunter Moore and every other douchebag misogynist.
He's "Eliot Ness with a Harvard degree" (his colleagues), "a righteous, homespun voice of reason" (the Times), "like a Bing Crosby movie" (opposing counsel).
Job, despite being tormented and tempted by Satan, remains righteous and for this reason has his good fortune restored to him by the Lord.
History shows us that the overwhelming forces of hate will try to provoke these visionary youth and turn their righteous indignation into a reason to repress them.
