Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes the image of the heroic victim holds up. Other times, however, the paragon of virtue is revealed -- as was Charles Stuart -- to be a very flawed human being. At which point the press, like an avenging ex-lover, typically executes an about-face and attacks with self-righteous fury, as if to say, "How dare you misrepresent yourself...
...self-righteous protesters outside the yard, think how horrified you would be if one Swiss woman was raped by an Iraqi soldier. The rape of many Kuwaiti women by Iraqi soldiers doesn't seem to bother...