The English Premier League will stop holding moments of silence to honor global events. The league held a “working group” and the group agreed that these gestures were “becoming too commonplace but also inconsistent.” Some events that the League has held silence for in recent years include: earthquakes in Morocco, flooding in Libya, October 7, the Russian military operation in Ukraine, the terror attack at the Manchester Synagogue, and more. The Telegraph reports that “tensions caused by protests around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have undoubtedly been a factor in football receiving clearer guidance.” Now I get it! Some warm-blooded players probably wanted to honor the dead Palestinians and since global powers can’t let that happen, they’ll just stop honoring everything altogether. Got it. That tells us what we need to know about these gestures: they’re made to manipulate you and in so doing, they honor nothing. Red card. Eject! The post The Politics of Silence appeared first on Redacted.