"rightly so" meaning in English

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          "text": "1966, Insight and Outlook\nThe causes of student unrest, both here and in Europe, have been probed by many; critics bewail, and rightly so, the effects of a generation of permissiveness and Spockery."
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          "ref": "2011, José Saramago, History of the Siege Of Lisbon, page 32",
          "text": "[…] having been ironically reprimanded for inventing ingenuous errors, [he] will have to allow the errors of others to pass, when what he is tempted to do, and rightly so, is to fill the margins of the page with a flurry of indignant deleaturs […]",
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          "ref": "2021 July 6, Phil McNulty, “Italy beat Spain on penalties: 'Pure theatre as Italy present formidable obstacle in final'”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Italy's progress throughout Euro 2020 has been gathering momentum from their opening win against Turkey and after overcoming Belgium and Spain in the knockout stage they will fear no-one and rightly so.",
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        "fairly, justly, correctly"
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          "word": "with good reason"
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  "word": "rightly so"
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          "text": "1966, Insight and Outlook\nThe causes of student unrest, both here and in Europe, have been probed by many; critics bewail, and rightly so, the effects of a generation of permissiveness and Spockery."
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          "text": "[…] having been ironically reprimanded for inventing ingenuous errors, [he] will have to allow the errors of others to pass, when what he is tempted to do, and rightly so, is to fill the margins of the page with a flurry of indignant deleaturs […]",
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  "word": "rightly so"
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