In animal farm, the communists take over from the ruling capitalist pigs, and the leadership ends up as pigs.
Same thing here. The capitalist pigs scream "freedom of speech" to take further power, and use it to defeat freedom of speech.
It just means that a party has been in too long. Everyone knows that about the Tories. This is just another sign of it. Just another distraction from the inevitable conclusion of the electorate that things aren't working, and this organisation has to be shifted.
Tories should hope that the boot is not on the other foot next time. It's a painful process to go through, realising it was your turn to deny yourself a position in a debate and instead defend freedom of speech. It really was for me. My moment was Charlottesville. I wouldn't defend the right of association and expression of the right wingers. Seriously, I made it back to sanity from that moment only earlier this year. It. Was. Not. An. Enjoyable. Few. Years.
Cognitive dissonance can make a mockery of your private thoughts and a very unpleasant mess of your experience of self.
Plenty of people piling on Lineker are making a big mistake that they will regret personally. You're betraying something instilled in you from a young age. To be weird about it, your mind won't it. You won't like the consequences. Ultimately, if it happens to you, remember, it's natural, we forget who we are when parts fall into disuse. That is incredibly human, and it's the direct corollary of the lesson about freedom of speech being something you should support when it doesn't suit you.
They tried to warn you. They definitely warned me. It happened anyway. I did it anyway. It's a very honest regret. I would save anyone from inadvertantly setting up trouble for themselves. Life is too hard for that. Good luck pulling yourself back if you go all in here. It's a rocky, rocky path. It is ultimately possibly the way the best lessons are learned. But it will destroy you, as it destroyed me, and as it destroyed many of the people who made it their business to try to equip you with a clear heirachy with certain values taking precedence in hope you might not do this to yourself.
Cheers
