27-08-2020, 18:34
Trouble with ignorance Dancing is it breeds stupidity, racism, bias, injustice ........
If you study history academically you get to evaluate the sources of the information or disinformation you are discovering, but today we are blasted with a tsunami of immediacy in which facts, opinion and judgements emerge swirling in a maelstrom of gloop. Harry might be the nicest and kindest bloke around. The Greek police might be men and women of the highest probity. Maguire is being called a disgrace for not apologising and has been dropped by England, for what, being there, for being found guilty at a trial for which he was in England, like all the witnesses who were likely to support him?
Not only do we have to not access any media to avoid this stuff, but footballers, celebrities of any kind, have to stay home in permanent lockdown to be fairly certain of not being caught up in anything like this. We are creating a very odd world. Now logically Southgate can't pick Maguire until the appeal has been heard, and if its outcome is not favourable (and there's no prison sentence again) however long that takes, he can't be considered for England again until the suspended sentence runs out, at which point I suppose Southgate gets to judge whether Harry has miraculously become a new man. Bloody strange.
If you study history academically you get to evaluate the sources of the information or disinformation you are discovering, but today we are blasted with a tsunami of immediacy in which facts, opinion and judgements emerge swirling in a maelstrom of gloop. Harry might be the nicest and kindest bloke around. The Greek police might be men and women of the highest probity. Maguire is being called a disgrace for not apologising and has been dropped by England, for what, being there, for being found guilty at a trial for which he was in England, like all the witnesses who were likely to support him?
Not only do we have to not access any media to avoid this stuff, but footballers, celebrities of any kind, have to stay home in permanent lockdown to be fairly certain of not being caught up in anything like this. We are creating a very odd world. Now logically Southgate can't pick Maguire until the appeal has been heard, and if its outcome is not favourable (and there's no prison sentence again) however long that takes, he can't be considered for England again until the suspended sentence runs out, at which point I suppose Southgate gets to judge whether Harry has miraculously become a new man. Bloody strange.