Can you ban a word?

It’s a case of Not What It Is, But What It Means
As another Manchester derby approaches, City’s suits are imploring the Blue hordes to refrain from using the term “Munich” when baiting the Red Buccaneers. They say, and some would agree, that it’s disrespectful to the victims of the Munich air crash in 1958, the recent anniversary of which has prompted the usual sycophantic TV docs, in themselves coming just days after “George Best” day on BBC2 was an excuse for all manner of rouged propaganda. It’s an issue that ties in with the new era of politically-correct thought police, the Home Office’s laws against incitement and Tony’s new much-vaunted Respect agenda. If the City boys offend, will the City boys be asboed and flown off to a CIA-administered torture chamber to come out bruised, battered and converted to the Old Trafford-cum-high capitalist cause? Maybe they’ll stop, out of respect for the suicide lawyer from California – a big Red natch.
“Red” is good. “Rag” is better. “Munich” divides opinion among City fans. But when “Andrew Cole, he’s not a M**ich any more” rings round the ground, you can be sure that it is not only the hooligan/scally fringe piping up. Some people might theoretically be appalled by the word and its implications but sing it in the heat of the moment. Some people may even sing it who have decried its use on the various City online spaces. Some of them are young twats who do not know the difference.
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