Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

[Chris B]

That's your opinion which you are entitled to, but not sure how you can claim to know what Gary Linaker was "talking about" when he wrote the tweet in the first place.

Because it’s impossible to raise the subject of the Nazis in the 1930s without the spectre of the holocaust and WW2 looming in the background. He wasn’t making a point about coincidental patterns of speech, he was clearly invoking the descent of Germany to the holocaust.

 

[Chris B]

So you think that Joan Salter was denying the holocaust that she survived and killed her own parents when she confronted Braverman about her language echoing 30s Germany last month?

That’s your grand theory? Accusing a holocaust survivor of holocaust denial?

She was speaking about her own life experience. What camp was Gary in?

 

[awest]

Did the cost of City's bench still get mentioned?

 

[Chris B]

He could have said it was like the rhetoric used by the British press and Government in the 30s when boats full of refugees were turned back to Germany…

Probably more valid, and less offensive. Shame he didn’t.

 

[domalino]

She was speaking about her own life experience. What camp was Gary in?

No no no.

You said that comparing this governments policies to 1930s Germany was holocaust denial.

Thats what Joan Salter did. You’ve claimed she’s denying the holocaust.

The comparison doesn’t change its meaning based on who says it. One might be more informed, sure, but the statement cannot be valid from one and holocaust denial when someone agrees with them.

Plus if your argument is that no one but holocaust survivors can speak to 1930s Germany then what the hell are you doing arguing that there’s no comparison - unless you were there?

 

[Blue Mist]

They love the rags even more but reserve the same treatment for Rashford. TAA has been hounded by the same faces that hounded Sterling and Rashford.

Yes, we know City are hated. By certain sections of society, so are black people.

What !!! When has Darling Trent been hounded by the media ? As for Fish Fingers, if you think he's hated because he's black you are the only one.

 

[Citizen Mike]

I think Lineker is perfectly entitled to express his opinions - whatever they are - and I‘m hugely against ”cancellation” of anyone or groupthink by coercion. But the BBC has to walk a tightrope of impartiality (apart from football !) because of its unique cultural position. Gary knew what he doing and that he was putting the BBC in an impossible position.
It matters not that he was “freelance”, if I employed an expensive leading consultant on a project who was then briefing against or publicly criticising it he’d be off the job in an instant. Words have consequences.
By Invoking Nazi Germany in his original statement and then gleefully doubling down in the following days, left the BBC little choice in the matter: it was a direct challenge - him basically squaring up to them.
I think there’s no way back for him but he’s a very wealthy man so no problem, but I’m sure the BBC will find a way over the coming week to move forward with putting shit punditry back on our screens.

I would have more respect for champagne socialists if they paid the same proportion of tax as those that are PAYE>

 

[Impeccable One]

I know the producers of MOTD were stuck between a rock and a hard place but you’d think they’d have tried something innovative to try and save face.

Ears, Shearer and Wright will have been watching that last night thinking ‘they need us!’

I know there would be a licensing issue, but replacing with spitting image puppets would have been entertaining … we do need a Micah puppet

 

[barney*]

Because it’s impossible to raise the subject of the Nazis in the 1930s without the spectre of the holocaust and WW2 looming in the background. He wasn’t making a point about coincidental patterns of speech, he was clearly invoking the descent of Germany to the holocaust.

Again that's your opinion.. you are trying to turn your opinion of Gary Linaker's tweet into a fact!

 

[Stoned Rose]

Thought it was shit in it’s “silent” format.

There’s no way it won’t return to it’s normal presentation. It’s the perfect opportunity for delivering subliminal messages.