The Terrorists Haven’t Won: Manchester Edition

Not as long as stuff like this is happening:

Manchester Benefit Concert’s dancing policeman says ‘we do care about what we do’ ❤️ https://t.co/yXsyKihmLm pic.twitter.com/CkVgf425d0

— People Magazine (@people) June 5, 2017

As British tabloid The Sun tells it, Twitter users were touched by this image of a police officer dancing outside the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, the rescheduled concert, itself a defiance of the violence that occurred with the terror attack that killed seven the Saturday prior. As Justin Beiber sang to the mostly young people inside, this bobby danced a very European Maypole jig with a group of children outside. From The Sun:

[One] user called for the footage to be shared globally, to show those who try to attack Britain that “we won’t be bullied into submission.”

Other Twitter users praised the unnamed officer, with one saying he “sums up what’s good about Britain.

The English suffered a second attack in London a mere weeks after the Manchester attack. It’s easy enough to see them as victims of terror at the moment. And they have, with their open door immigration policies, let the wolves in the door themselves. But for all the stereotypes of being too polite to those who would harm them (watch A Fish Called Wanda for a take down of how Americans see the proper British), are in fact quite good at war. They gave the world the great Winston Churchill after all. And a read of anything by C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien proves that the English understand war strategy and the morality of the fight. And they also understand that part of winning is surviving to dance again. And dancing.

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