Manic Maladjust Minces Into Match.
Which headline is more factual?
Manic Maladjust Minces Into Match?
… Or…
Gay-rights activist storms pitch at Hungary’s Euro game
gay-rights activist storms pitry’s Euro game
The one at the top of the page does not appear anywhere else beyond the confines of my blog.
The other one appears on Eu Observer’s website.
Some may say mine is slightly less than objective, and maybe so.
But this blog has never pretended to be impartial..
So –
– okay, the rude trespasser probably didn’t ‘mince’ onto the pitch.
Yet neither did he ‘storm’ – the actual EUObs report simply says he ‘ran. ‘
And are we all so brain-washed now that we accept the abuse of a word we always used to use when we meant ‘joyous?’
Now we can’t, unless, when we describe a party thus, our words are misinterpreted and people think it’s an aberrant orgy?
As for ‘activist, ‘ well…
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… …while his agitprop outfit may or may not be leeching off tax-payers, we know from the EUObs report, he ( or it?) was merely behaving no better than any other offensive football hooligan.
With the additional negative aspect, that the churlish behaviour was a deliberate affront to Hungary’s flag.
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As for UEFA’s retreat from the principle of keeping the sport untainted by ideology, what are we to make of their U-turn into craven gesture politics….
….by which they ‘added a rainbow logo to its Twitter handle, despite having earlier banned a rainbow light-show at the Muniich stadium..
Jim Ex Jakarta 15:10 on June 25, 2021 Permalink |
Your headline is much more eye-catching.
Seriously, Ross, I agree with you about how the extremists hijack words that used to have a real meaning and twist them.
Gay is a very good example, but I think it’s too late to recapture it as a nice happy word. Most of the ‘gay’ people who we see on the news are bitching about something, anything but joyous.
The same thing has happened with woke. I remember you protesting how the bad guys were misusing it but in a lot of your blog posts you now use it in its new weird sense.
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