Stato
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- Dec 21, 2011
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The tweet reminds me of that embarassing video of some Everton fans abusing their own team at the train station. Football at the top level is viewed by too many as being completely separate from real life. I'd guess that both the tweeter and the chanters wouldn't be so callous or aggressive in their day to day life, but James O'Brien's metaphor of tying up the scarf so tight that it cuts off the oxygen to your brain seems to apply. To those Everton fans Maupay and co. are not people with real human emotions, they are characters in a drama. The Crawley fan seemed to view O'Riley not as a fellow athlete, but as a pawn in a huge financial game, to be dismissed because he happens to work for an opponent. Dehumanisation is increasingly problematic in a world where all can communicate with and about people who they are never likely to have to be accountable to.
When a public disaster happened back in the seventies and eighties, we were probably all guilty of exchanging the sick jokes in the playground or the pub. In some ways, it's part of the coping process. It's not surprising that this kind of black humour is rife with the emergency services who have to find ways to cope. However, too many people seem to view the public forum of social media as just a huge playground or pub. In making that mistake, they've only themselves to blame for not realising that everyone in the world can hear, somebody is inevitably going to tell teacher and they're going to have to face the consequences.
When a public disaster happened back in the seventies and eighties, we were probably all guilty of exchanging the sick jokes in the playground or the pub. In some ways, it's part of the coping process. It's not surprising that this kind of black humour is rife with the emergency services who have to find ways to cope. However, too many people seem to view the public forum of social media as just a huge playground or pub. In making that mistake, they've only themselves to blame for not realising that everyone in the world can hear, somebody is inevitably going to tell teacher and they're going to have to face the consequences.
