robp135
Sebastien Bassong
Populism is rearing it's ugly head and duping the gullible.
Greens did do well in the local elections.
Populism is rearing it's ugly head and duping the gullible.
Greens did do well in the local elections.
Hard to say....that's such a blurry line these days.Must be a parody, Shirley?
Think you're going to speak to him like that and get him to change his mind?So your view IS that white people don't experience racism.
That's a problem, is incorrect, and the kind of falsehood that will help usher in authoritarianism
Think you're going to speak to him like that and get him to change his mind?![]()
So what IS Farage saying then?It’s been represented as comments about immigration by Farage which is not. It’s being presented as a defense of the police by the Father, which it’s not.
I don’t believe that young white males DO believe that the police are prejudiced against them. Aside from the fact the police just quite clearly aren’t, I don’t think there’s a single group of young White men who believed it until they were told they think it just yesterday.
Sums up current society for me.
The bit thats not about immigration or racismVideos now showing the ‘protestors’ in Southampton doing Nazi salutes… remind me which bit of protest that is again?
So what IS Farage saying then?
I have not seen the fathers comments as a defense of anything. It is quite clear that he simply wants people to not use his son's death as a political weapon...we're back to Nigel again!
It's irrelevant in this context - you are applying logic and nuance as first line arguments against propaganda; that doesn't work, because it's talking at, rather than to, the other parties.
Reform have already done the anti Romanian, Hungarian, Albanian, European division. They've won those battles, emotionally, whilst the other side argued about details they secured votes with emotions.
Now they are down to an even more basic level - skin colour; and an even more abstract demon - people hardly anyone actually sees, experiences, or is affected by.
That last bit isn't reductionist - it's the opposite; the scared/angry/aggrieved person (which is most people in the country, because most of our living standards are declining in the past 15 years) will fill in the gaps to create whichever demon fits to satisfy their own needs.
Which is exactly the same thing I've been trying to make @LutonSpurs aware of.
I'd highly recommend reading;
Carl Jung on loneliness
Pomerantsev on Censorship through noise
Hoffer on the hatted other
And
Satre on self invention.
Then combine all those principles, apply them to the life of a Reform voter, and then apply your own arguments and positions against that position - see what result you get.
I'd be fascinated to see what the outcome is.
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