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用巴勒斯坦做注脚的胜利,与权力者的共谋叙事Victory Footnoted by Palestine: The Complicity of Power Narratives

国际 文化层 · 元暴力 The Guardian ↗ 2026-07-03 § 链接
体育胜利是最好的掩体,能让权力共谋者在泪水中完成洗白。
Sporting victory is the perfect cover for power complicity to achieve whitewashing through tears.

埃及队赢了,但这绝不是一场关于足球的 a-priori 胜利。主教练 Hossam Hassan 在赛后将胜利献给巴勒斯坦人民,这种叙事是典型的武器化表达:通过将一个巨大的、不可质疑的苦难符号(Palestinian people)作为注脚,瞬间将一场竞技比赛升华为一种族群的尊严之战。在这种叙事入口中,任何对其执教能力或政治立场的质疑,都会被自动过滤为对“阿拉伯骄傲”的冒犯。

真正值得关注的是 Hassan 本人。一个被批评为“激励者而非战术家”,且与埃及总统 Sisi 深度绑定的权力共谋者。在元暴力(meta violence)的结构中,这种共谋逻辑非常清晰:权力者通过支持一个具有民族主义色彩的英雄,来对冲其在治理上的合法性危机。当他带着球队在世界杯上取得突破,他就不再是一个政治附庸,而成了“民族英雄”。

至于赛前与美国警察的肢体冲突,被包装成一种“不退缩”的刚强表达。这种 masculine-centric narrative 再次被激活——两个强壮秃顶男人的对峙,成了某种阳刚之气的证明,而掩盖了权力在具体执行中的粗暴与混乱。足球场上的泪水,不过是为这套共谋叙事提供的最廉价、最有效的润色剂。

Egypt won, but this is far from an a-priori victory of football. Coach Hossam Hassan's dedication of the win to the Palestinian people is a textbook case of weaponized expression: by using a massive, unquestionable symbol of suffering as a footnote, he instantly elevates a sporting match into a battle for ethnic dignity. Within this cognitive entry, any critique of his tactical ability or political alignment is automatically filtered out as an offense to "Arab pride."

Hassan himself is the key. A man criticized as a "motivator rather than a tactician" and deeply aligned with President Sisi. In the structure of meta violence, the logic of this complicity is transparent: the power center supports a nationalist hero to hedge against legitimacy crises in governance. Once he delivers a World Cup breakthrough, he is no longer a political appendage, but a "national hero."

The pre-match clash with Dallas police is packaged as an expression of "unyielding" strength. This masculine-centric narrative is reactivated—two huge bald men squaring up becomes a testament to virility, masking the raw brutality and chaos of power execution. The tears on the pitch are merely the cheapest and most effective lubricant for this complicity narrative.