Eudaimonia and Co
•56% Informative
Gary Lineker, one of Britain’s most beloved figures, and its top sportscaster, a former Golden Boot winner himself, spoke out and said that the government's rhetoric about refugees was “not dissimilar to” Germany in the 1930s.
The BBC forced him to step down after days of furious attacks from ultra conservatives, who said Lineker was the one at fault, “diminishing” the Holocaust.
Orwell’s point wasn’t just about language — but how the perversion of language goes on to degrade institutions.
For an institution to be worth anything at all, it has to be impartiality to the truth.
We cannot design institutions to deliberately ignore and obscure truth.
Frida Ghitis: We have established this truth, and it has taken us millennia of human history.
But when that null hypothesis says that some people don’t exist, or they’re there to be hated, she says, that’s not science.
Ghitis says media “both-sideses” the worst kinds of bigotry and hate, which flies in the face of history.
VR Score
45
Informative language
33
Neutral language
32
Article tone
informal
Language
English
Language complexity
30
Offensive language
offensive
Hate speech
not hateful
Attention-grabbing headline
not detected
Known propaganda techniques
detected
Time-value
medium-lived
External references
9
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