Fiery but mostly successful voyage

It can't be real. It can't be real. It's real. Kenosha, Wisconsin NEW OVERNIGHT FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING RIGHT NOW ATLANTA 74° CHARLOTTE 73° WASHINGTON UNIV. DATA AS COMMUNITIES ACROSS U.S. BEGIN TO REOPEN K-12 SC... Titanic: watery but mostly successful voyage.

A screenshot of tweets frames a CNN news report showing a burning scene in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with the chyron describing the protests as “fiery but mostly peaceful.” The punchline compares this contradictory wording to calling the Titanic’s disastrous voyage “watery but mostly successful,” mocking euphemistic or misleading descriptions of catastrophes. It is used as a reaction to absurd spin, contradictory headlines, or attempts to minimize a disaster.

• @beobanka / 3559 2020-09-16