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WhatInTheWorld #18: Gary Lineker & Nazi comparisons
WhatInTheWorld
English - March 13, 2023 17:28 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBNews Commentary News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Gary Lineker was briefly suspended by the BBC for comparing the govts rhetoric on refugee migrant crossings to that used by the Nazis about the Jews in the 1930s. While the comparison was somewhat tenuous, missing from the discussion is the fact that the UK govt played a key role in causing the migrant crisis by sponsoring jihadi death squads who destabilised Syria and caused the inevitable refugee crisis.