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Gone For A Walk said:
Well done, you've found a person, one who understandably carries deep scars, who sort of makes similar comments. That doesn't legitemise anything.
Look, it's simple, in his position you simply can't go round talking **** like that (comparing us to Nazi Germany). He's an idiot for thinking he can ....never mind that if you stop and think about it for even one second the situations are anyway totally incomparable and the accusations simply ridiculous.
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30s Germany - Jews escaping Germany
Present day UK - illegal immigrants trying to get into UK
Obviously Lineker was talking nonsense
 
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SydneyTiger14 said:
You know if you're just after the highlights there's youtube videos that could have done it for you.
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No there's not
If there is are you able to tell me when they appear?
recording and watching some of MOTD is easier than hunting down 10 youtube videos each weekend
 
Let's be fair here, if he'd of come out and said he supported the gov on this etc then the left would have been calling for his head, just as the right are now for him coming out against it.

Imo he's just come across like an idiotic hypocrite with an over exaggerated opinion that he posted for attention, but working for the BBC he's not allowed to do it as he well knows after being warned before.
 
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Howdentiger2 said:
Let's be fair here, if he'd of come out and said he supported the gov on this etc then the left would have been calling for his head, just as the right are now for him coming out against it.

Imo he's just come across like an idiotic hypocrite with an over exaggerated opinion that he posted for attention, but working for the BBC he's not allowed to do it as he well knows after being warned before.
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Absolutely! Let's be fair. If he'd done exactly that would the BBC have stood him down do you think?
 
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Gone For A Walk said:
I honestly don't get why people are siding with Liniker.
I don't agree with some of his views but of course he's entitled to an opinion.
It's nothing to do with his political biases, the simple fact is that in a position like his, especially these days, you can't come out with utter garbage comparing the government to the Nazis and expect to get away with it. He's an idiot for doing so, and I'm glad he's been removed.
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But is it garbage. Now of course there is an agenda that wants it to sound garbage and I think lineker could have been a bit more cute in his delivery. But lets break it down a bit.

Post WW1 Germany was in the **** big time. A breading ground for extremists. Instead of addressing the real issues and facing the real causes, it's so much easier to blame it all on an easy scapegoat. Enter a centuries old foe. The Jew.

They're responsible for all your problems. It's an international conspiracy. They're all working together for themselves at your cost. And now we've got your attention let's throw in the disabled. They're a drain in society. Then they come for the next group, then the next group.

Fast forward to today. The government are presiding over a **** show. They don't have the answers. They need to employ deflection tactics to take people's minds of the real issues. Easy, let's appeal to people's most base emotions.

Enter conversation, a few thousand immigrants coming across here on boats. They're a drain on society. We've got no room for them. Our services are over stretched. You can't get a house because they go to the front of the queue. It's all their fault. An easy scapegoat, appealing to people's most base emotions.

Now of course there are issues there to be addressed but no way is it the cause of all our problems. It's an absolutely shameful tactic but I expect nothing less from that shower of ****.

So my reading of the comments is this. You're always on shaky ground when you play the nazi Germany card. But he wasn't talking about things like the Holocaust or world wars like those with an agenda imply, to make it sound like
a rediculous thing to say. It's the tactic of finding a group that can't defend itself and using it as the scapegoat. Feeding into those base emotions that are simmering under the surface and deflecting from the real problems.

And here we are. Polarising society. Divide and conquer. However you want to phrase it. It's distracting us from the real issues.
 
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