This whole clown show is a direct result of the Government directing their Tory stooges in the BBC to get Lineker to apologise for speaking the truth to power. In essence, they wished to suppress free speech. Some points to consider:
- as is shown above, Lineker had no case to answer re: abiding by the BBC rules on impartiality. See examples for Sugar, etc.
- impartiality works both ways. BBC Chairman installed by government-appointed panel that included a Conservative party donor and prospective MP, as well as the wife of the former chair of the Spectator who worked with Boris Johnson when he edited that political magazine. BBC Board member Robbie Gibb, brother of Tory MP and former minister Nick Gibb, a clear Tory party agent.
- if he was a right-wing Football Presenter and had expressed his views on turning back boats, sending families fleeing war and seeking asylum away with no chance of return, etc. nothing would have happened
- he did not, as had been claimed, compare the Government to Nazis. What he did was compare the rhetoric & language used with that of the democratically elected German National Socialist Workers' Party as they rose to power. This is an important distinction where the lessons of history should be discussed and seen to be discussed. The poetic irony is that one of the National Socialists' most effective tools was to suppress & silence voices of opposition heard in the mass media of the time (newspapers & radio)
- hilariously, if the roles were reversed, the right-wing press plus the useful idiots would all be screaming "wokerati, snowflakes, etc." for supressing free speech.
- lastly here's someone else who is saying *exactly* what Lineker said:
Quote:
Suella Braverman has refused to apologise to a Holocaust survivor who said describing migrants as an “invasion” was akin to language the Nazis* used to justify murdering her family.
The Home Secretary was confronted by Joan Salter, 81, during a meeting in her Hampshire constituency of Fareham on Friday evening, with footage of the exchange, provided by the charity Freedom From Torture.
Ms Salter, who has been recognised with an MBE for her work on Holocaust education, likened Ms Braverman’s rhetoric on migrants attempting to cross the English Channel to that of the Nazis* during the Second World War.
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* again, Ms Salter did not use the word Nazi in her address to Braverman. She was citing the language used that ultimately led to the dehumanising and murder of the Jews.
Maybe they'll go after the 81-year old Holocaust survivor next, for consistency?
This is all about control .. nothing more