Lliana Bird on Twitter: "@DaveAtherton20 @GaryLineker @AuschwitzMuseum As a Jewish person I personally find this crass point scoring more offensive. Linekar talked about language. Language! Not about acts or intentions. To point out similarities in language is not to denigrate the memory of those who were murdered in the holocaust." / Twitter

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As a Jewish person I personally find this crass point scoring more offensive. Linekar talked about language. Language! Not about acts or intentions. To point out similarities in language is not to denigrate the memory of those who were murdered in the holocaust.

8:26 AM · Mar 12, 2023

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@angelab2711 and 3 others

And as a Jewish person I do find Lineker’s choice of metaphor offensive as it links a policy that has no “final solution” of the sort Hitler enacted to Hitler’s “Final Solution”. Lineker could have chosen more appropriately when voicing his opinion

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@DaveAtherton20

I don’t think you know what a metaphor is…

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@petersummers99

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@DaveAtherton20

You’d think he’d include pictures of Auschwitz rather than Birkenau to try and score his crass points. Something of an own goal.

Karen P - #RightToStrike #Socialist

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@DaveAtherton20

Thank you Lliana, such an important point.

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@DaveAtherton20

🙏

Stephen L. Wright

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Thank you

@SimonJamesHall

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It's certainly telling that people are wilfully misrepresenting Lineker's perfectly lucid comments for their own highly dubious ends.

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