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Shhh Malarkey! He's still ill!There's no reason to think Morrissey would comment on Brand's situation...
Btw, does Russell fit into the folk devil category from your blog?
"A folk devil is the personification of evil. They’re engaged in wrongdoing. An instantly recognisable unambiguously negative symbol with no favourable characteristics. A threat to society. Their sins must be litanised. Good people must identify, denounce and drive them out of public life. The moral boundaries must exclude them. They’re toxic. They taint.
To get rid of the folk devil – there is a moral panic. This always involves atrocity tales – false stories endlessly repeated that sum up their badness and cause outrage. It sometimes involves a subversion myth – a story that explains the way in which a member of a social circle has turned out to be wicked, and has rained evil upon the righteous.
Stanley Cohen’s model for moral panics goes roughly like this:
1. Labeling – a threat to the social fabric is detected, labeled & magnified by gossip/media/social media etc.
2. Exaggeration – the narrative is amplified, distorted, fabricated & escalates into a moral panic.
3. Symbolisation – short-hands are used to sum up the threat, often visual.
4. Prediction – future evil deeds are expected & confirmation bias, intense scrutiny & myths tends to supply them until the panic is over."
All from your meticulous illuminating research at https://folk-devil.com/home/