I am puzzled why people who have a publicly accountable position -elected officials, directors of offices at any level from county to State to the Fed in the USA, for example, are either not told that their comments on social media should reflect their public position, or they are and ignore the advice, or they don't care. Although I suppose they could just be dim but that begs the question of their credentials and how they were appointed, (the flaw in English grammar could be a typo-?).
I offer this thought because yet again someone in a public position, albeit an obscure one when viewed from the UK, has posted a shocking comment which has been deleted following an apology, but is the person responsible sorry about the comment, or sorry they caused offence, or sorry it became a news event? And how can anyone make such a comment and not think people would not be offended by it?
Because language does matter, and in public life it establishes a tone and the parameters of what is decent and what is not. With our Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson using the word 'bollocks' in an interview in the Czech Republic I wonder if we are not in danger of replacing reasoned debate with emotional tantrums.
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