10-03-2023, 09:19 PM
(10-03-2023, 09:12 PM)Alf Stewart Wrote:It's perhaps worth noting which political party was ruling Germany in the 1930s. One could therefore argue there's an implied link in Lineker's tweet. However, I feel that may be staying too far away from TV presentation related discussion.(10-03-2023, 09:05 PM)qwerty123 Wrote: The issue isn’t that Gary has tweeted criticism of a government policy, which he and others have done in the past without repercussion. The issue is that he thought it acceptable to compare the policy of a mainstream political party (a policy which a not unsubstantial proportion of the country support) to the behaviour of the nazis.Could you perhaps provide a link to where he compares the government to Nazi's? (Or Isis or N.Koea come to that). I must have missed that one.
Unless you can give examples of others who have compared the behaviour of a mainstream political party to the Nazis or other similar groups (Isis, North Korea) and not been reprimanded it is not factual to say the standards are not being applied equally.
It really isn’t unreasonable to have standards that allow people to disagree with things politely but don’t allow such criticism to turn into insults or hyperbole.
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