Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Fans react to Gary Lineker Match of the Day suspension" video.

  1.  @MC_swampmonster  : Made me think, perhaps that’s a way of life for many people? They just let the person next to them, “finish their thoughts,” for them, so the media rushes in to offer a service to everyone who might have an opinion on BBC censorship. This is what happens when one of the Tory party’s biggest donors gets handed the job of BBC Chair by Boris Johnson, I suppose? The media just can’t cover their own arses fast enough.
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  2. These people just don’t get it. It would be one thing if Lineker had made a pro or anti-Tory or Labour comment, but he didn’t. He simply pointed to a historical FACT about how language was used in 1930’s Germany to, “otherise,” specific groups, making it harder for us to think of them as people like us. Normalising terms like, “hoards,” and, “invasion,” is PRECISELY how it begins! How does it go? “First they came for the Jews and I said nothing. Then they came for gypsies, the gays, etc, etc, until they came for me, but there was no one left to speak for me.” And if people are supporting the BBC’s decision, WHY are they not pointing to their STATED hypocrisy? They literally said, as part of their reasoning for this suspension, that Lineker, “is not a political commentator,” but surely the very LAST people we should tolerate ANY political opinions from should be news and politics commentators? Anyone want to talk about Andrew Neil? Since when did the BBC see it as their, “responsibility,” to protect the thin skins of extremists in the Tory party? When one of their biggest donors was handed the job of chairman of the BBC perhaps?
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  3. These people just don’t get it. It would be one thing if Lineker had made a pro or anti-Tory or Labour comment, but he didn’t. He simply pointed to a historical FACT about how language was used in 1930’s Germany to, “otherise,” specific groups, making it harder for us to think of them as people like us. Normalising terms like, “hoards,” and, “invasion,” is PRECISELY how it begins! How does it go? “First they came for the Jews and I said nothing. Then they came for gypsies, the gays, etc, etc, until they came for me, but there was no one left to speak for me.” And if people are supporting the BBC’s decision, WHY are they not pointing to their STATED hypocrisy? They literally said, as part of their reasoning for this suspension, that Lineker, “is not a political commentator,” but surely the very LAST people we should tolerate ANY political opinions from should be news and politics commentators? Anyone want to talk about Andrew Neil? Since when did the BBC see it as their, “responsibility,” to protect the thin skins of extremists in the Tory party? When one of their biggest donors was handed the job of chairman of the BBC perhaps?
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