Amber Rudd "human shield"

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Is anyone else annoyed by Diane Abbot saying Teresa May is using Amber Rudd as a "human Shield"? It is being used over and over again and seems to me to be devalueing the meaning and shock value of the desciption.

Yeah, I don't like it either. Sign of the times. Take an emotive word or expression and use it to describe something very ordinary (politicians with their everyday bickering in this case).

Language is just so heightened and exaggerated at the moment.

Politicians can be the worst.

• Human shield (accusing a politician of trying to deflect blame)
• Literal violence (a tweet that you don't agree with)
• Genocide (describes a fictional situation with no injuries or deaths)
• Nazis (for anyone who disagrees with you about anything ever)
• Hate rally (what we used to call a meeting)
• Transphobic (people with GCSE biology)

It makes people come across as not awfully clever.

Scapegoat, perhaps, but human shield is overstating it.

Stupid thing to say, but it's a clumsy way of saying this all leads back to May (which it does).

It’s not just Diane Abbot who has been saying it though.

Its the repetiton that normalises violence and appropriates other people's tragedy for selfish point making. Everyone who mindlessly parrots the phrase is trivaliing violence. Its ubiquitous, we don't even notice anymore.

It is true about the repetition.

I just switched over earlier and caught ITV News with Corbyn saying "Amber Rudd has been a human shield for Teresa May". So I thought of this thread.

It is like they have a script of emotive expressions that they have to use, no matter what the subject. The phrase "Hostile environment" appears every 20 seconds because clearly we idiots in the electorate cannot understand that something is bad unless politicians chant crap phrases at us.

Can none of them express themselves in their own way?