Tragedy Chanting

[Rileybobs]

If I'd had a relative died at Hillsborough, and heard such chanting, I actually wouldn't be offended. It wouldn't open up old wounds and take me back to that awful day. Because I know that humanity in the main is empathic. Those same people who sing such chants would probably remove their caps if a funeral cortege passes by in everyday life. If they met someone affected by Hillsborough they'd show compassion. People behave differently in a crowd. They say/chant things that aren't to be taken literally. I think you all know that really. It's just drunken idiots singing a stupid song. The media are instructing you to be outraged at stuff like this to help them sanitize their 'product'.

You’re probably right in that those people celebrating Jack Walker’s death would be the first people to become outraged if anyone interrupted a minute’s silence on Remembrance Sunday. But that doesn’t make them empathetic individuals, it just makes them hypocritical morons.