Alan Davies has committed a thought crime against the post-Hillsborough cult of emotional correctness
(The Hillsborough disaster was a human crush which occurred during the semi-final FA Cup tie between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest football clubs on 15 April 1989 at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England. The crush resulted in the deaths of 96 people, with a total of 766 other persons being injured. All of them were fans of Liverpool Football Club)
The furore over Alan Davies’s perfectly sensible comments on Hillsborough raises a question: what are you allowed to say about that tragic event? All Davies said is that it is ridiculous for Liverpool FC to refuse to play a match on the anniversary date of the Hillsborough disaster, which is true.
We don’t normally hide away from the world on the anniversaries of terrible events. We don’t all stop using the London Underground on 17 November (the anniversary of the King’s Cross fire of 1987 that killed 32 people) or keep our children home from school on 21 October (the date in 1966 when a slag heap killed 116 schoolkids in Aberfan).
So why shouldn’t Liverpool, like every other team, play football on 15 April?
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In the U.S. they would still hold the sporting event and maybe have a moment of silence for the victims and their families at the beginning with perhaps a nice tribute to those killed. It would take just a few minutes and then the game would go on. Problem solved.
Political Correctness a form of socialism by marxsis sludgeworms
"marxsis"
WTF?
"Political correctness is a far greater threat to our freedom and liberty than is terrorism..."
Karl Marx was one of histories most evil men
Tell those who demands he appoligise and tell them what they can do with their appology
Oh yes Bird-Brain, Karl Marx must be one of history's "most evil men" just for writing on political subjects!? - just because some later dictators wanted to selfishly interpret it their own way. So in that respect he'd be right up there with Jesus Christ, whose later religion caused the murder of countless millions on all continents of the World with the firey zeal to promote it over the centuries!
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