A shallow, emotionally inarticulate response based on a soap opera-like need to create drama and conflict out of nothing.
To complain that the Benetton billboard of an "angelic" blonde girl and a "devilish" black girl is racist is to show McIndignation. The "angelic" and "devilish" slant is merely assumed by the observer and not actually in the billboard.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)