about football-I-mean-Gaza. Not since Jared Kushner was dispatched to “fix” the Middle East (how’d that turn out, anyway?) have I heard such naivety expressed with such confidence. But what is complicated, according to Lineker, is the question of males (aka trans women) in women’s sport. When asked why he — a former sportsman, I believe — has stayed uncharacteristically silent on that matter, he replied: “You can’t cover a subject like that in a post. It’s too nuanced.” Israel is simple; men in women’s sport is complicated: it could be the centrist dad mantra.
Lineker, though, lives in the BBC bubble – where his views, I would guess, are absolutely mainstream. Trans people are the most persecuted people on earth – this as an excuse for not going into the trans women in women's sport debate – and no one in the world is suffering as much as Gaza children, bombed for no good reason by the horrible Zionists. Unfortunately he has this urge to show what a nice guy he is – plus he's not interested in exploring stuff in any depth – so he keeps putting his foot in it.
Hard to summon up any sympathy.
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