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Some more thoughts on this- we saw exactly how stochastic terrorism radicalises in other countries, an unholy alliance of alt right propaganda on YouTube and social media with willing attention lavished on them from a commercial press causing things like the Christchurch shooter https://twitter.com/KlezmerRouge/status/1343572982774554624
I remember a study on why fake news hadn't taken off in the UK in the same way as elsewhere saying our domestic tabloids and "serious" papers already filled that niche, and it turns out the same applies to far right radicalisation. Our papers spin great replacement theory,
They spin judenbolschewismus conspiracies, they run client pieces for homophobic and bigoted interest groups, they have no qualms in reproducing fundamental beliefs of nazi ideology as truth. Melanie Philips being cited heavily in Breivik's manifesto should have been disastrous
, her reappearance in the Christchurch manifesto likewise. And yet an explicitly far right press continues unabated.
Maybe we ignored it in Scotland, feeling apprehensive about firmly declaring the obvious, that Scotland's problems with far right violence come from the Union,
Maybe we ignored it in Scotland, feeling apprehensive about firmly declaring the obvious, that Scotland's problems with far right violence come from the Union,
in some vain attempt at performative reasonableness, but it's cost us. We will see more, not less, far right violence unless we excise the tumour of Britain completely.
Going forward in 2021 then, we must be unambiguous about this and establish our values firmly on our own terms
Going forward in 2021 then, we must be unambiguous about this and establish our values firmly on our own terms
British political culture is a factory of neonazism. Independence will set us free from this, and greatly reduce the factory's production power, but only if we are relentless and unashamedly clear about who and what we are fighting.
