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Post by Moose on Dec 18, 2015 19:10:22 GMT
Recent results in France were fairly encouraging, with the National Front doing less well than expected. Nonetheless there seems to have been a surge in support for extreme Right Wing parties throughout Northern and Western Europe, including in the UK. Or has it always been this way and I've just not noticed?
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Yuki
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Post by Yuki on Dec 19, 2015 8:57:56 GMT
Pretty encouraging indeed. I think there is a real increase in support for Right-Wing groups, and the reason in my opinion is because in times of fear people look for answers that would appease these fears (someone to blame for example). The fact that many/some* in the Left are suppressing any real discussion of the subject**, is also driving many ordinary people into the hands of the right where they find simple and straightforward answers to their questions (even though those answers are mostly wrong, but they fulfill their tranquilizing role pretty well). Right now I think what's holding a Right-Wing large scale victory at bay, is a greater fear of their extremist policies which have driven Europe into war in the past. But if the situation with ISIS, and with Islamic terrorism in general were to get any worse, that fear barrier may be breached. *Hopefully they're just the vocal extremists rather than a significant proportion of the Western Left faction. **I've had a few "discussions" with these pseudo-liberals, and their tactics to silence any alternative views include: -- name-calling: bigot, racist, xenophobe if you're "white".. naive, right-wing puppet, spy, etc, if you're from an Islamic background. -- aggressive calls to just "fuck off", "shut the hell up", and the like. -- ridicule: here they seem like they're engaging in the discussion, but in fact they're just trying to make you feel like an idiot, without really trying to gently correct your misinformation (assuming this is the case), or point you to where you can find better and more reliable information, and when they do, they do it with a tone of dismissal.. Muslim apologists, like Reza Aslan, use this tactic with uninformed Westerners often as well. -- plain and simple censorship: the last time I opened my facebook account, I posted a comment on someone's status where he was bitching about Sam Harris, and how Harris was just a bigot who likes to single out Muslims (even though he wrote more books about Christianity than about Islam). I politely pointed out that having read one of Harris's books and seen many of his videos, he did not strike me as being motivated by bigotry or hatred towards Muslims. Regardless of whether he's correct in his assessments or conclusions, his ideas are genuine and purely academic in nature, I think. The comment was deleted a few hours later, and the same happened to any comment that disagreed with the OP's stance on Harris. I don't really think that true bigots and racists care about being called bigots or racists. They'd probably be proud of it. Making a distinction between genuine criticism and plain bigotry is quite vital to stop the progress of Right-Wing fascism, both in the West and in the Islamic world (ISIS and other Jihadist groups for instance, but also the more "docile" ones which hijack the democratic system to reach their end goal of establishing an Islamic theocracy, like the Muslim Brotherhood).
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