It's the other way round. Folk are saying Clarkson got away with it (and so they should, it's a salient point) but then ruining it by pointing a joke.
Will Gary Lineker be presenting Motd on Saturday?
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Yeah fair enough, it's not important given the context as you say.
Someone is suspended/sacked because of their expressed views. That is cancel culture.
You can't support one and be involved in the other. I haven't pointed the finger anywhere but I didn't need to, did I?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
You didn't need to post any of this drivel in the first place.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
None of us need to post our drivel but there'd be no fun if we didn't post it would there
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
This is the most interested in football I think I have ever been.
It's always the ones who express their distaste of authority the most that make the best police.
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Starry Wisdom
Or rather the worst
petee
no gods, no malarkey
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I'd imagine they will just broadcast clips of matches and ambient sound, with a chunky lower third providing factual information and an endless scrolling banner with slightly pointed comments regarding the usual service.
Likewise
petee
no gods, no malarkey
ah, so it's not on yet.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
no presenters just view of goals
as no one else can be arsed to turn up
somehow it's a win for the BBC's boss against the bloody lefty's who appear now to included most football fans
quite something to see , seeming as in the past who control the football fans is in government
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
not on til 10pm ish usually
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
It's after 10pm our time, some time.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
They're just gonna dub some 1970's library music over it. The punditry slots will be filled with close-up footage of seagulls picking at the litter outside the grounds.
Sort of ironic that the night it's basically broken it will possibly attract its biggest audience share.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
your missing the differance between "stating your political opinion" and "spewing hate filled bile/dangerous untruth" - one is acceptable the other isnt - and shouldnt be. And - besides Lineker - who else has actually been "cancelled" for their views?
petee
no gods, no malarkey
Fucking loads of people in Academia. I assume you're not a keen follower of current affairs.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
One day we'll have to explain to our grandkids just how momentous it was that we were there, we were there the day a man didn't talk about the football on the television.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Let's compare Clarkson doing a racism under his breath cos he thinks it's funny and edgy and clever (remember the 'slope' incident?) with Lineker expressing his concerns about the new immigration law and the language used by the government.
One is expressing his views. The other is being a twat (and that's being charitable).
They are not in the least bit comparable.
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Starry Wisdom
You won't have to explain it, they'll know about it from school
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Can you edit your post to make the question mark the same size as the letters? It looks all wrong as it stands.
I like that you can often be funny when not being a wanker.
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Starry Wisdom
Strange you should mention that, I've a recording of seagulls made in the microfilm room of the national library of ireland I'm sure would be music to farmerbarleymow's ears
petee
no gods, no malarkey
Can you edit your post to make the question mark the same size as the letters? It looks all wrong as it stands.
no
FridgeMagnet
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it's not a "culture", there has never been a "cancel culture", people are consistently criticised or kicked out or banned or whatever because of things they say, going back millennia. The modern concept of "cancel culture" is a cynical right wing attempt to state that their avatars are unfairly blocked by an imaginary left wing consensus.
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Starry Wisdom
At first I thought it was a dog in distress but when I thought about how unlikely it'd be in either the nli or leinster house next door and listened with more care it became clear it was gulls
Yes the term is recently coined. But I, for instance, wouldn't see losing someone their livelihood to be the correct course of action because I didn't like their views. That is definitely happening now and it happening to Lineker is an example of it happening from the right.
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