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The social awareness of Homo Putinicus, meticulously burnished by television propagandists, is such that pride in Lugovoi’s achievement and indignation at the infamous campaign unleashed against him by those who hate Russia can jangle within the breast of ordinary Russians without the slightest dissonance.
Whatever the case, Chinese are well acquainted with Americans’ feelings of indignation mixed with powerlessness.
And language matters here: indignation suggests that some social actors – a government or elites in general – have violated shared norms or moral understandings.
The distinction between indignation and outrage might seem like nitpicking.
If today’s protest movements are based on righteous indignation, the lack of concrete demands should not be a problem: shared norms (and the policies that would follow from them) can still broadly be assumed.
This also means that political elites should try to understand and work with the message of indignation – and not cynically play up anger for electoral advantage.
Elites – and protesters’ fellow citizens – should respond conscientiously and creatively to moral indignation, comprehending that it is ultimately about an affirmation of liberal democracy, and not about all-out revolution, let alone nihilism.
This widely condemned governmental neglect of the Kobe earthquake victims was among the major sources of public indignation that helped popularize the reform movement from which Kan emerged.
Interestingly, such retrospective support for Saddam and his dictatorial regime is now being met with growing indignation in the Arab World, because ordinary Arabs are only now learning of the crimes perpetrated by the Ba'ath Party regime.
Following the rare display of open indignation by Xi and Wang, such speculation has now become stronger than ever.
All political players in Berlin reject this charge with great indignation.
After all, when it comes to indignation about the world’s injustices, the old can be just as passionate as the young.
India’s government has reacted with fury to the mistreatment of an official enjoying diplomatic immunity, and public indignation has been widespread and nearly unanimous.
The indignation of some had a clear anti-capitalist and anti-globalization tone.
Likewise, the renewed turmoil in Egypt’s major cities reflects popular indignation at the army’s hijacking of the revolution, and at the humiliating tutelary “transition” overseen by Egypt’s Military Council under Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi.
Only through his punishment can popular indignation be contained.
Beyond that, he is generally guided by a sense of indignation against his predecessors, especially President Barack Obama, for having been too gullible or unfocused to solve the problem at hand.
Fine words and mellifluous phrases filled many documents – but when Vukovar was destroyed, Dubrovnik shelled, Sarajevo besieged for years and then the horrible mass murders in Srebrenica occurred – all that the European Union was able to muster were more words and self-righteous indignation.
When Peruvians vote on April 9, after many years of poverty and inequality, it is likely that popular indignation will prevail.
On the other hand, the deep and morally justified indignation and shared anxiety (felt well beyond America) made it politically impossible to not respond militarily.
And that is not the only uncomfortable reality: unlike in Venezuela or Hong Kong, popular indignation in Iraq is directed toward a Western-sponsored regime.
Yet when Patrick Collison of software infrastructure company Stripe and Tyler Cowen of George Mason University recently wrote an article in The Atlantic calling for a bold new interdisciplinary “science of progress,” they stirred up a flurry of righteous indignation among academics.
As he wrote to his brother in 1860, “I cannot now read other books on the subject without indignation.”
But even if the Turkish government’s indignation over Khashoggi’s murder was exaggerated for diplomatic gain, Turkey’s judiciary has complied with its international obligations to investigate.
So, I find it hard to join the chorus of moral indignation at the UK government’s recent decision to “break international law” by amending its Withdrawal Agreement (WA) with the European Union.
But it is the breaking of “international law” that has chiefly aroused the critics’ moral indignation.
The most common explanation is that a 3% increase in metro fares caused public indignation at rising prices and high inequality to boil over.
When the law changed, scandals began erupting every few months, raising public awareness of, and indignation with, monopolistic behavior.
The German government, channeling this popular indignation, could protest in a variety of ways, such as refusing to participate in EU decision-making processes requiring unanimous consent.
Those who did not know her and her set, and heard none of the expressions of pity, indignation, or surprise uttered by the women because she had allowed herself to appear in public and to show herself so ostentatiously in her lace head-dress and in all her beauty, admired the composure and loveliness of the woman, and did not suspect that she felt as though pilloried.
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