Re: Tony Greenstein: The hypocrisy of Gary Lineker's suspension Archived Message
Posted by John Monro on March 11, 2023, 11:25 pm, in reply to "Re: Tony Greenstein: The hypocrisy of Gary Lineker's suspension"
Dovetail joint, you make a good point re Lineker and the Labour party. However,I believe Lineker did make a mistake in comparing government action re asylum seekers to some German 1930s Nazi policy. I am never comfortable with rhetoric that attacks the opponent in such a way, it will invariably be seen as offensive by your opponent and gives them an entitlement to attack you. I certainly support Lineker's moral freedom to comment on politics as he likes, he just needs, as a public figure, to be careful with his words. He gets paid £1.36 million a year, and there is the old saw "he that pays the piper gets to call the tune". Having said that, the BBC could have managed the issue much more subtly and behind the scenes, and not made such a rod for their own back.I think Lineker and the BBC can surely manage to come to some agreeable arrangement, perhaps some non-specific statement that it might have been a mistake to make any comparison with Nazi Germany, and he can then present a comparison even more pointed, but less loaded - something that the UK did, perhaps the Indian or Irish famines?
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Message Thread:
- Tony Greenstein: The hypocrisy of Gary Lineker's suspension - scrabb March 11, 2023, 1:32 pm
- Re: Tony Greenstein: The hypocrisy of Gary Lineker's suspension - Dovetail Joint March 11, 2023, 2:17 pm
- Re: Tony Greenstein: The hypocrisy of Gary Lineker's suspension - John Monro March 11, 2023, 11:25 pm
- Lineker has principles? Oh, donnez-moi un break - SueC March 12, 2023, 12:58 am
- Re: Lineker has principles? Oh, donnez-moi un break - Raskolnikov March 12, 2023, 7:55 am
- Re: Lineker has principles? Oh, donnez-moi un break - Dovetail Joint March 12, 2023, 8:06 am
- "Never spoken in defence of folk like JK Rowling..." - Morrissey March 12, 2023, 11:13 am
- Bugger Lineker, another Centrist Scum - Chris Rogers March 12, 2023, 1:42 pm
- Which boatload is fecking us over? - Ken Waldron March 12, 2023, 9:40 pm
- Ah yeah. Lineker's so bold on Nazified Ukraine too, innit. nm - Jim_Carlucci March 12, 2023, 9:12 am
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