Oh yes, I can see how this would be perfect moral outrage communal witch hunt material in China just as well as anywhere else.
Biologistic (a word?) primal anger paired with a feeling of righteousness and being part of the movement to rectify it. I’m also going to throw in the term ‘whiteknighting’ here
Boy is her Citizen Score going to suck now.
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are there any moral outrages which don’t lead to these ‘witch hunts’ you speak of. Where are your limits for other peoples bad behavior? When should there be consequences? Are you sure you’re not making more room for awful behavior with your !whiteknighting?
First thing that came to mind was this:
Demons Assholes are prowling everywhere nowadays…
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There was the myth of fingerprints
I’ve seen them all,
and man are all the same
Well, the sun gets weary
And the sun goes down
Ever since the watermelon
And the lights come up
On the black pit town
Somebody says what’s a better thing to do
Well, it’s not just me
And it’s not just you
It is all around the web.
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As a native English speaker, I would think that “tackling” would normally infer grappling with the target, rather than tripping. So the following is what I would call a tackle.
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Ouch. I’d say that’s a penalty and a red card right there. And in the front of the posts too…
Someone’s getting a talking to from the coach about excessive enthusiasm 
A soccer tackle is I think what is referred to although if simply tripping a player up counts as a ‘fair’ tackle, I’ve been subject to uncountable shamefully bad calls from referees.
I was always a terrible soccer player.
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The angry, red-faced cry of many a footie player, “But, ref, I was going for the ball!”
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Yes, I’d call that a tackle too. Do you mean native UK English speaker, as I am a native English speaker too, but American.
We have the American football and it is tackles all day long. Tripping is illegal.
So you’re saying in Soccer if a player trips another intentionally they call it a tackle?
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No, I’m saying they don’t.
I, in my soccer playing days, would quite often accidentally trip up fancy-dan showboats who annoyed me by whirling the ball past me.
Genuinely accidental or at least due to incompetence rather than malice.
Their showoffy skills were such that I genuinely had no idea where the ball was or what they were doing it with it so I’d just vaguely stab a leg out in the general direction I guessed they were going and hope.
Sometimes I’d get the ball, sometimes I’d get the man, often I’d get neither.
Either of the first two would do for me but only the first would be a legal tackle.
For a country that claims to love soccer as much as the UK does, it is remarkable how little coaching it is possible to receive while still playing a lot of football.
I think that’s one of the reasons England football fans always seem so bewildered and disappointed when the national team doesn’t magically win every game.
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I’m sure she’ll be an upstanding mother.
It depends which team the player is on. Some teams get a bit more leeway than others 
PS: Yes, I meant a “Native UK English Speaker”, sorry, I forgotten about our common tongue.
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Ah, the life of a fullback. And I mean “soccer” football.
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But, WE won the one that mattered!
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And almost as incendiary.
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