Most of the opposition to Lineker’s comments in here are weak as piss. It’s this old trope that your argument has to be absolutely bomb proof to an almost impossible level of minutiae, or you can’t make it; outrage at any level of contradiction or hypocrisy to shut down an argument. The same shit is levelled at Greta Thunberg, because she exhaled carbon whilst making a point about saving the planet, she shouldn’t make the point at all. It’s nonsense.
We all know the horrors of history, we all know what it looked like in the early days, we know how they operate, and we should all call it out when we see it, no matter how shaky the ground we are standing on or what our working contracts look like. Pedantry isn’t an excuse for inaction, and this thread reeks of pedants. We might disagree on how hard the wind is blowing, but, unless you are a stooge, unless you are a cunt, unless you are full of hate, you should applaud anyone asking a government to robustly defend their rhetoric on any matter.
If history matters, then the lesson of the Second World War is that every last person who lived through it and it’s atrocities wished something had been done sooner, that people had spotted the signs, that a pre-emptive strike was launched. Good on anyone pointing out what they believe to be the signs of what maybe to come.
You’ll hear nothing but ‘small boats’ and conflation of ‘illegal people’ for the next two years, and the response should be questions about the funding of our border security and the difficult but nuanced questions about our laws, not pedantry about how the questions are phrased or who asked them.
