Sprintcyclist wrote on Jan 21
st, 2024 at 9:55am:
This article doesn't say what is far-right or far-left. How you classify these things determines the count. Is Islamic terrorism far-right or far left or something else? BLM? Antifa? Eco terrorism? Narco terrorism?
In my view, the months of BLM and Antifa lawlessness, eco terrorism, Islamic terrorism in recent years have far outweighed anything far-right. Even the Christchurch shooter didn't see himself as 'far-right'.
Another link from your site:
The term, ‘far-right’, refers to any political ideology that is centred on one or more of the following elements:
strident nationalism
usually racial or exclusivist in some fashion
fascism
racism
anti-Semitism
anti-immigration
chauvinism
nativism
xenophobia
Racism, racial exclusivism, chauvinism, anti-semitism, xenophobia - these are very strong and significant elements of black and Muslim ideologies.
When does nationalism or patriotism become 'strident'? This is a very tendentious label, 'strident nationalism' as is 'nativism'.
Anti-immigration - a very broad term. Everyone, or almost everyone is against uncontrolled, unlimited immigration. Does that make almost everyone 'far right'? For the lefty media pundits, and social media hordes of pwogwessives - yes. ANY control of immigration from the third world, especially of illegal third world immigration, is automatically labelled 'controversial and far-right' by them.
When almost anyone the left disagrees with can be called 'fascist', that label is also near-meaningless. Look at the logo for the Federal Politics board on this site: it has Abbott with a hitler moustache. Ridiculous and frivolous.
Is this any more serious:
Could Taylor Swift stop the rise of the far right in Europe?No. This is morons talking down to what they take to be the 'stupefied masses' whom they imagine to be even stupider than themselves.