Re: Lineker has principles? Oh, donnez-moi un break Archived Message
Posted by SueC on March 13, 2023, 12:50 am, in reply to "Re: Lineker has principles? Oh, donnez-moi un break"
Dovetail Joint: "Being rich and famous doesn't per se exclude one from commenting on issues of the day, surely? How less privileged does one have to be before one qualifies? Wouldn't it be worse to keep silent, because one is wealthy and successful and famous, compared to making a comment and expressing a viewpoint?" SueC: I think you are missing the point. Lineker is being lionised, not because he is "expressing a viewpoint" but because he's expressing the 'right' viewpoint, one that has been stamped and approved by the woke elite. Would he have a job or career left if he had said something vaguely critical of migration? Don't you think celebrities understand this - that their public utterances are only tolerated if they say the right things? There is much talk nowadays of 'privilege' - well, I would expect Lineker and any other wealthy celebrity to understand the privilege bestowed on them by money. The people whose lives are adversely affected by thousands of new arrivals don't have money - they can't buy themselves out of the consequences. They don't have Lineker's access to the media to put their point of view; news bulletins and a zillion chat shows aren't discussing their lives and their problems.
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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
- 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
- Re: Lineker has principles? Oh, donnez-moi un break - SueC March 13, 2023, 12:50 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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