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Topic History of: Venables Outrage? Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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wyot
Yes, and so effective because short term it makes the indignant feel better about their own transgressions...a moral outrage shot in the main vein...
JK2006
When I used to write a weekly page in the Sun in the 1980s, sometimes I had nothing to say and I always remembered - RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION works every time. Whip up outrage and indignation about something; the plebs love it. Felt it said more about them than about me.