Sentences with phrase «on moral outrage»

«What we have here is rare in city government: a case that's built on moral outrage,» he said.

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If there's no objective reality upon which to base your existence, then there's no basis for your moral outrage at any injustice — even your outrage at my perceived intrusion on a * woman's rights *.

Until its moral capital had completely vanished, it traded on a sense of moral outrage at the injustices of the world, and it proposed a revolution to create a better one.

The Liberator Devil therefore encourages more democratic forms of desecration that combine moral outrage with entertainment, as is the case with rap artists like Ice - T or the rock singer G. G. Allin, who, in an expression of artistic freedom, once defecated on stage and threw the feces at the audience.

Harbaugh on @MikeAndMike about other coaches: I thought it was fake outrage, it wasn't real... The moral of using sanctity of spring break?

The Windrush scandal is a stain on our national conscience and there has rightly been a great deal of political and moral outrage, but what happened to the Windrush children is no accident.

A 2010 study on backlash against female politicians found that «participants experienced feelings of moral outrage» such as contempt, anger, and disgust when women politicians were described as power - seeking.

The Windrush scandal is a stain on our national conscience and there has rightly been a great deal of political handwringing and moral outrage.

Labour's MPs can barely wait to get their fingers on their phones before tweeting their latest moral outrage at the behaviour of their leader, whether it's because of a perceived failure to deal with anti-semitism, or his support for decriminalised sex work, or any of the other opinions or unforced errors he's responsible for.

The expiration of key parts of the Zadroga Act protecting the health care of 9/11 first responders is a «moral outrage,» US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said on CBS» «Face the Nation.»

• Perhaps Mandelson's cry of anguish expresses his fear that if Miliband is right on this then New Labour's backside - licking of big corporations might eventually come to be viewed as most people now view its insistence that Britain be involved in Iraq — a moral outrage and a gross disservice to the British people that New Labour were elected to serve.

«But I'm saying the moral outrage that was shown over that, and that was 50 years after the Holocaust and there still was a feeling of outrage that you would have something of another religion constructed on what was considered sacred ground.»

Now that it has been revealed German carmakers BMW, Volkswagen and Daimler had an organization test the effects of diesel fumes on monkeys, and in a separate test nitrogen dioxide on humans, Germany's politicians and media are all falling over themselves feigning outrage and moral indignation.

Once the giddy critical pile - on and hate - watching settles down, the (justified) moral outrage that (re) Assignment tries to thwart will end up being the regrettable and forgettable film's only lasting legacy.

My opinion is that the moral outrage this movie provokes is based on personal hurt.

Once the giddy critical pile - on and hate - watching settles down, the (justified) moral outrage that The Assignment tries to thwart will end up being the regrettable and forgettable film's only lasting legacy.

In «The Hunger Games,» the author turned an exploitation premise on its head, challenging the public to reconcile their moral outrage over a bad - taste killing contest with the bloodlust they felt in wanting to see Katniss survive.

While many school districts and libraries have a policy honoring parents» wishes that their own children be given alternate assignments for class readings that conflict with their morals or religious beliefs, in far too many instances schools cave in to parental outrage and simply remove a book from class reading lists; when the angry mob gets loud enough or politicians up for re-election on the «family values» ticket need to make some noise, they've even resorted to pulling the access to the book, removing it from school and public libraries and classroom borrow shelves.

From the state - sanctioned zeal of religious reformers and the symbolic statue - breaking that often accompanies political change to attacks on art by individuals stimulated by moral or aesthetic outrage, this study aims to present the rationale of iconoclasm and how it has become a productive and transformational practice for some contemporary artists.

But one piece far fewer people likely saw was David Robert's piece on Grist «Why climate change doesn't spark moral outrage, and how it could.»

At least I can count on you to not climb on some high horse of moral outrage or scientific purity.

In that case, where the defendants had been convicted on two counts of conspiracy to corrupt public morals and conspiracy to outrage public decency in respect of the publication of a magazine which contained advertisements inviting readers to engage in homosexual acts, the House of Lords was split about whether a common law offence of conspiracy to outrage public decency existed.

Furthermore, because traditional regnant approaches to legal practice seldom lead to the amelioration of systemic injustice experienced by clients and communities, students spurred on by moral outrage to confront injustice through traditional legal approaches will also find themselves disappointed and possibly deflated.

By examining the ways in which dominant media focuses on eliciting emotional reactions from privileged, Western readers — including the emotion of moral outrage — on behalf of victims of poverty, famine, or violence in far - flung parts of the world, Ahmed points out the ways in which emotions can reproduce dominant power relations.

Thus, in Smith's depiction, it is the lawyers who are the primary bearers of moral outrage, they are the agents who engage and confront unjust systems on behalf of their clients.