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Gary Lineker - he really had to go and a warning t against virtue signalling

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mids2019 · 19/05/2025 05:21

Maybe Gary Lineker's departure acts as a warning for this not acquainted with history to go around randomly reposting pro Palestinian links though I suspect he is not the only one. In a way it is a sad demise to a career but an absolutely necessary one and a timely warning that a proportion of P Palestinian supporters are anti semites.

for to say I didn't like the Gaurdian 's take that the BBC were looking to sack Gary anyway and he just have them an excuse.

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mids2019 · 21/05/2025 06:04

If Gary wasn't punished we give a green light to anti semitism. This cannot be.

My daughter's learn about the holocaust. The holocaust was partly caused by a sustained virulent racist media campaign by the Nazis including vile cartoons portraying Jews as vermin. Any student of history in this country knows why you cannot, absolutely cannot, have a rat in a reported tweet. Many public figures have gone for a lot less.

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Sleeplessinmetal · 20/05/2025 22:47

History will judge but it won’t be Gary Liniker

Morningsleepin · 20/05/2025 21:50

Simplestars · 19/05/2025 06:15

100% this.
GL has the courage to call a GENOCIDE A GENOCIDE.
Hope the world leaders can hang there heads in shame for allowing this to happen.

Yeap

TomeTome · 20/05/2025 20:26

@EasyTouch wow what a lot of words to say so very little. Do you honestly think that British people are stupid? If so compared to who?

EasyTouch · 20/05/2025 19:30

Sorry, but there are a lot of duncebats who have successful podcasts.

Gary Lineker is blessed that he lives in a dumbed down nation where being able to project in the media and string sentences together may fool the average person into thinking that he has above average intelligence.

In all the decades he has been around, I have never met ANYBODY who rates Lineker as "witty" or quotable.

He's a British footballer who had enough about him to not have his
incontinent cheating publicly exposed and is fairly articulate.
But he is not above average in intelligence or wit for a non Brit non ex or current footballer.

If he was above average in wit, he would be able to defend Gazans without using his escalating anti Semitism that has got him to this point.

Only an idiot provides any type of link on the internet without reading it and confirming its provenance whilst gleaning some of the other points of view of the original poster to see where their head is at.

Couldn't be me losing a cushy sit down gig for being a racist fool when all he had to do was repeat the rhetoric that Gazans are in a very dangerous and desperate situation.

Which they objectively are. If he was intelligent, he would be able to use that fact as a premise as to if Israel should give priority to that reality whilst defending herself from a Hamas that is root and branch embedded in Gaza on every imagined social, financial and institutional level in Gaza. Thus illuminating the rock and hardplace reality for the conscious Gazan prior and likely after this war.

Instead, he chose to go down that thousands year old anti Jew road.

TomeTome · 20/05/2025 19:01

I think the police do choose not to invest things all the time, but regardless I agree with previous posters this would be a waste of time. It’s designed to make people scared to speak which is a shame because we favour free speech in the uk.

Corinthiana · 20/05/2025 18:43

Luddite26 · 20/05/2025 18:01

People who happily ignore Islamaphobia to get their man in no 10 to get their Brexit done. People who are happy to use and share rhetoric to stir up the mob for their own ends.

Who are these "people" of which you speak?

Toootss · 20/05/2025 18:03

The police don’t make the law -the Gov do so write to your mp. The police can’t decide not to investigate even if they think it’s a waste of time.

Luddite26 · 20/05/2025 18:01

People who happily ignore Islamaphobia to get their man in no 10 to get their Brexit done. People who are happy to use and share rhetoric to stir up the mob for their own ends.

Twiglets1 · 20/05/2025 17:54

3 of us agree!

MyNameIsX · 20/05/2025 17:49

sualipa · 20/05/2025 17:48

What an utter waste of police time - if we had decent coppers then this would be nicked in the bud from the off. The world's gone mad.

For once, we agree.

Absolutely bonkers.

sualipa · 20/05/2025 17:48

MyNameIsX · 20/05/2025 17:41

You were saying?

Gary Lineker could face a police investigation over the anti-Semitic Instagram post that prompted his BBC exit, Telegraph Sport understands.

Officers from Scotland Yard visited at least one complainant who told them she suffered significant distress over the social media post last week.

No decision has been made yet on whether a police investigation will be launched but officers suggested to one family a crime reference number will be issued.

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What an utter waste of police time - if we had decent coppers then this would be nicked in the bud from the off. The world's gone mad.

MyNameIsX · 20/05/2025 17:41

TomeTome · 20/05/2025 14:57

I think the idea is gaining two separate threads, one is GL is thick so he shouldn’t speak about things he doesn’t understand, and the other is GL isn’t thick so he MUST have known all about the history and how rats have a deeper meaning and are antisemitic.

its all nonsense really. All that’s happened is a man posted something that had undesirable content on it, he apologised and left/lost his job as a result, but he was finishing soon anyway and most people agree with him that the behaviour of Israeli. Gaza is awful and that saying nothing is turning a blind eye to evil.

You were saying?

Gary Lineker could face a police investigation over the anti-Semitic Instagram post that prompted his BBC exit, Telegraph Sport understands.

Officers from Scotland Yard visited at least one complainant who told them she suffered significant distress over the social media post last week.

No decision has been made yet on whether a police investigation will be launched but officers suggested to one family a crime reference number will be issued.

MyNameIsX · 20/05/2025 17:39

Luddite26 · 20/05/2025 16:01

When Boris Johnson said women wearing Burqas look like letter boxes he became so popular he didn't lose his job - he got the top job. And attacks on Muslim women escalated and no one batted an eyelid.
While I think Lineker was in the wrong in this instance it highlights once again who is in charge in the UK.

Must confess - I am curious too.

Who is in charge?

Doobiesista · 20/05/2025 17:30

Luddite26 · 20/05/2025 16:01

When Boris Johnson said women wearing Burqas look like letter boxes he became so popular he didn't lose his job - he got the top job. And attacks on Muslim women escalated and no one batted an eyelid.
While I think Lineker was in the wrong in this instance it highlights once again who is in charge in the UK.

Who is in charge?

Corinthiana · 20/05/2025 17:03

Luddite26 · 20/05/2025 16:01

When Boris Johnson said women wearing Burqas look like letter boxes he became so popular he didn't lose his job - he got the top job. And attacks on Muslim women escalated and no one batted an eyelid.
While I think Lineker was in the wrong in this instance it highlights once again who is in charge in the UK.

Yes, I'm also curious... what do you mean by this?

quantumbutterfly · 20/05/2025 16:49

Luddite26 · 20/05/2025 16:01

When Boris Johnson said women wearing Burqas look like letter boxes he became so popular he didn't lose his job - he got the top job. And attacks on Muslim women escalated and no one batted an eyelid.
While I think Lineker was in the wrong in this instance it highlights once again who is in charge in the UK.

Please explain.

Luddite26 · 20/05/2025 16:01

When Boris Johnson said women wearing Burqas look like letter boxes he became so popular he didn't lose his job - he got the top job. And attacks on Muslim women escalated and no one batted an eyelid.
While I think Lineker was in the wrong in this instance it highlights once again who is in charge in the UK.

TomeTome · 20/05/2025 14:57

CurlewKate · 20/05/2025 14:20

Are you only allowed to have and express an opinion on a genocide if you are highly intelligent?

I think the idea is gaining two separate threads, one is GL is thick so he shouldn’t speak about things he doesn’t understand, and the other is GL isn’t thick so he MUST have known all about the history and how rats have a deeper meaning and are antisemitic.

its all nonsense really. All that’s happened is a man posted something that had undesirable content on it, he apologised and left/lost his job as a result, but he was finishing soon anyway and most people agree with him that the behaviour of Israeli. Gaza is awful and that saying nothing is turning a blind eye to evil.

Twiglets1 · 20/05/2025 14:36

CurlewKate · 20/05/2025 14:20

Are you only allowed to have and express an opinion on a genocide if you are highly intelligent?

No, any idiot can express an opinion about whether something is a war or a genocide, or anything else really.

CurlewKate · 20/05/2025 14:20

Are you only allowed to have and express an opinion on a genocide if you are highly intelligent?

CurlewKate · 20/05/2025 14:18

Doobiesista · 20/05/2025 13:02

Except they failed to mention the anti Semitic post that he re-posted so they only told half the story.

Really? I’m sure they did-I must listen again.

MyNameIsX · 20/05/2025 13:59

TomeTome · 20/05/2025 13:39

It’s really easy to think people who don’t know things you do are stupid. It’s not a conclusion anyone with much intelligence would draw though as it isn’t logical at all.

We are in agreement there.

However, I also believe it unwise to act as if you are knowledgeable on a particular subject, when you are patently anything but.

That brings us neatly back to Lineker.

Speaking of circles, I shall leave this particular 1-2, there.

TomeTome · 20/05/2025 13:39

It’s really easy to think people who don’t know things you do are stupid. It’s not a conclusion anyone with much intelligence would draw though as it isn’t logical at all.

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