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Lineker To Step Back From Presenting Match Of The Day
...until an agreement is reached on his social media use, the BBC has said.
Bet he is feeling less cocky now. No doubt he still gets paid. Time will tell if his principles or ego win the day.
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Bet he is feeling less cocky now. No doubt he still gets paid. Time will tell if his principles or ego win the day.
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I was about to post this in a thread in Chatterbank, but thought twice as it may be a bit too heavy for there. The comment I reacted to was this:
//There was nothing wrong with what he said.//
So let’s take a look at what he said. He suggested that the government’s proposed immigration reforms are “…immeasurably cruel” and claimed the language used was "...not dissimilar to that used by the Nazis in 1930s Germany."
Now let’s go further and examine that comparison. The government has proposed measures which will curb the numbers – many tens of thousands – making their way to the UK illegally. These people are arriving from a safe country where they are under no threat and so have no rational claim for asylum under any normal interpretation of that term. But once here, they are placed in accommodation – often in comfortable hotels, at huge costs to the taxpayer. It is this that the government's proposals aim to reduce.
So how does this stack up with the behaviour of the Nazi-led government towards Jewish people – who were, let’s not forget, settled citizens in Germany - in the mid to late 1930s? The Jews were gradually excluded from public life, the professions, and public education. The goal of Nazi propaganda was to demonize them and to create a climate of hostility and indifference toward their plight. On Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—Jewish businesses and synagogues were destroyed in the first act of state-sponsored violence against the Jewish community. On the night of 9-10 November 1938 hundreds of violent acts against Jews that were committed, organised centrally by the Nazi leadership. Around 400 people were murdered or driven to commit suicide. More than 1400 synagogues and places of worship as well as about 7,500 businesses and homes were destroyed. Jewish cemeteries and other Jewish community institutions were ravaged. In the following days, the Gestapo arrested around 30,000 Jewish men and hauled them to concentration camps, where hundreds were murdered or died. This, of course was the beginning of The Holocaust.
Frankly Mr Lineker’s comparison was crass, ignorant and an insult to the UK government – and by extension to the people of the UK. If he wants to become involved in politics he should give up his football punditry and stand for Parliament.
//Ian Wright and Alan Shearer have apparently refused to appear on the show in solidarity.//
Win-win-win then.
//There was nothing wrong with what he said.//
So let’s take a look at what he said. He suggested that the government’s proposed immigration reforms are “…immeasurably cruel” and claimed the language used was "...not dissimilar to that used by the Nazis in 1930s Germany."
Now let’s go further and examine that comparison. The government has proposed measures which will curb the numbers – many tens of thousands – making their way to the UK illegally. These people are arriving from a safe country where they are under no threat and so have no rational claim for asylum under any normal interpretation of that term. But once here, they are placed in accommodation – often in comfortable hotels, at huge costs to the taxpayer. It is this that the government's proposals aim to reduce.
So how does this stack up with the behaviour of the Nazi-led government towards Jewish people – who were, let’s not forget, settled citizens in Germany - in the mid to late 1930s? The Jews were gradually excluded from public life, the professions, and public education. The goal of Nazi propaganda was to demonize them and to create a climate of hostility and indifference toward their plight. On Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—Jewish businesses and synagogues were destroyed in the first act of state-sponsored violence against the Jewish community. On the night of 9-10 November 1938 hundreds of violent acts against Jews that were committed, organised centrally by the Nazi leadership. Around 400 people were murdered or driven to commit suicide. More than 1400 synagogues and places of worship as well as about 7,500 businesses and homes were destroyed. Jewish cemeteries and other Jewish community institutions were ravaged. In the following days, the Gestapo arrested around 30,000 Jewish men and hauled them to concentration camps, where hundreds were murdered or died. This, of course was the beginning of The Holocaust.
Frankly Mr Lineker’s comparison was crass, ignorant and an insult to the UK government – and by extension to the people of the UK. If he wants to become involved in politics he should give up his football punditry and stand for Parliament.
//Ian Wright and Alan Shearer have apparently refused to appear on the show in solidarity.//
Win-win-win then.
MOTD is a highlights programme late at night on Saturday, when most football fans are still out on the lash. It is hardly a show of much political influence. Whatever Lineker says on his personal social media is not BBC policy. Pathetic that anyone wants to censor his personal views when he is not working for the BBC.
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
//Only politics he [politicians] should have opinions.//
Not at all. But Mr Lineker is in a position of considerable influence as a prominent employee (or freelancer or whatever his arrangements are) of the national broadcaster. The BBC has a duty to be politically impartial. When it has prominent employees making what are clearly their political criticisms of government policy - especially when those remarks draw parallels with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, it has to take notice.
Not at all. But Mr Lineker is in a position of considerable influence as a prominent employee (or freelancer or whatever his arrangements are) of the national broadcaster. The BBC has a duty to be politically impartial. When it has prominent employees making what are clearly their political criticisms of government policy - especially when those remarks draw parallels with Nazi Germany in the 1930s, it has to take notice.
ROY, I am asking because of a few issues.
Firstly, the boy is not a Muslim so why would Sharia law be applied to him in this country?
Who convened the Sharia court to try him?
When was the trial and who delivered the sentence?
He attends a State-funded Community School so why would a Sharia court have the power to suspend any of its pupils?
Firstly, the boy is not a Muslim so why would Sharia law be applied to him in this country?
Who convened the Sharia court to try him?
When was the trial and who delivered the sentence?
He attends a State-funded Community School so why would a Sharia court have the power to suspend any of its pupils?
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