As Gary Lineker's opposition to the government’s Illegal Migration Bill hit headlines, Lineker seemed on the brink of becoming something else: a Twitter saint. This is a profoundly unhealthy development ✒️ KateMaltby for ipaperviews
Is it wrong? Is it offensive to Jews? Some think so – Grant Shapps, who supports the policy, tweeted: “As a Jewish cabinet minister I need no lessons about 1930s Germany from Gary Lineker”. Regular readers will know I care deeply about, and I share the concern of many Jews that comparisons to the Holocaust can have the effect of downplaying its specific evil.
What is a problem is that Lineker has chosen the easy way to contemporary sainthood: snide tweets, but no intellectual contribution to how we might solve a substantive policy issue. Like most Twitter celebs, he finds rhetorical gestures so much easier. The Rwanda policy is inhumane. But the world’s migration crisis isn’t going away. Lineker has stressed on Twitter that the UK doesn’t take in significant numbers of people classed as refugees. This is true.
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