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As a left-wing journalist beaten up by a far right extremist - who is currently serving a 2 year 8 month sentence - which was the culmination of a concerted (and never ending) far right campaign, watching commentators equate the left with yesterday's fascist mob is nauseating.
This isn't a plea for pity - others have suffered far worse.
But those of us targeted by the far right know they have been whipped up and radicalised, in part, by mainstream right-wing media outlets and politicians.
But those of us targeted by the far right know they have been whipped up and radicalised, in part, by mainstream right-wing media outlets and politicians.
The attempt to draw an equivalence - ironically, a Trump-style "both sides" approach - between anti-fascists and fascists is not just nauseating (and it is), it is dangerous, because it minimises the real and growing threat posed by the far right.
There's enough phenomenon at work here, too, which is all too little discussed: what can be described as "aggro-centrists", that is, self-styled moderates who hate and fear the left more than anyone, including the far right.
*There's another phenomenon, even
But alas, we live in a country where there is more moral outrage at 'left-wing twitter pile-ons!' (normally, a left-wing writer has criticised a journalist or a politician) than there is at fascists physically going for the left.
But alas, we live in a country where there is more moral outrage at 'left-wing twitter pile-ons!' (normally, a left-wing writer has criticised a journalist or a politician) than there is at fascists physically going for the left.
