Current Affairs The Far Right

[dholliday]

Surely that's more just being culturally insensitive and ignorant rather then being a far-right racist? I mean do you think the people who donning that type of gear are really doing so because of a political message or because they don't see how it's offensive? They should defiantly change the logo and its whole look if it offends native American's that much but do you seriously think this should be classed as a "far-right" issue?

My first and last idol is this fella:

We should all feel free to culturally-appropriate from anywhere we like. Most who do it do so because they're inspired, it has nowt to do with politics or prejudice. The bad eggs who do so to aggressively provoke are damning themselves with their own actions, but that shouldn't stop the likes of Adam Ant from doing his thing.

 

[dholliday]

But what's your opinion, Dan?

 

[DanEFC92]

Surely that's more just being culturally insensitive and ignorant rather then being a far-right racist? I mean do you think the people who donning that type of gear are really doing so because of a political message or because they don't see how it's offensive? They should defiantly change the logo and its whole look if it offends native American's that much but do you seriously think this should be classed as a "far-right" issue?

Closest thread to it in the current affairs section, and couldn't be bothered making a thread on it.

 

[DanEFC92]

But what's your opinion, Dan?

That you're a tory biff.

 

[dholliday]

That you're a tory biff.

and you're a Twitter addict lol

 

[peteblue]

Look, scientists have proven that all good looking people are conservatives, although I grant you there are a few ugly ones, but they tend to have socialist tendencies. Anyway, now that it’s proven that socialists and left wingers are ugly and not very bright, we can move on........

 

[DanEFC92]

Look, scientists have proven that all good looking people are conservatives, although I grant you there are a few ugly ones, but they tend to have socialist tendencies. Anyway, now that it’s proven that socialists and left wingers are ugly and not very bright, we can move on........

Pfft, what do experts or scientists know?

 

[peteblue]

Pfft, what do experts or scientists know?

One of the few occasions this particularly handsome fellow agrees with them..........

 

[Zezti]

A post by ITV News' facebook page about the Finsbury Park attacker, and this is the top comment:

"The Far Right doesn't exist"
"The left support terrorists"
"the left protest against anti-child grooming"

It blows my mind that people actually think like this, and that others agree with it. People on the right don't want to acknowledge the possibility of a 'Far Right', while simultaneously grouping everyone on the left as 'Far Left' social activists and even terrorist and paedophile supporters/sympathisers.

 

[verreauxi]

Good read:

 

[Number_25]

So, unfortunately one of my best friends growing up has become a "frog man". Over the past couple of years we've lost touch with one another, so the only way I've been able to see this is through the medium of social media.

And I will say one thing, these guys use the same sort of recruitment tactics employed by ISIS.

ISIS attempts to convince angry, bitter, socially isolated young Muslim men into believing that the West has declared war on Islam.

The far-right attempts to convince angry, bitter, socially isolated young white men into believing that the West has declared war on them.

 

[summerisle]

 

[Pettifogger]

So, unfortunately one of my best friends growing up has become a "frog man". Over the past couple of years we've lost touch with one another, so the only way I've been able to see this is through the medium of social media.

And I will say one thing, these guys use the same sort of recruitment tactics employed by ISIS.

ISIS attempts to convince angry, bitter, socially isolated young Muslim men into believing that the West has declared war on Islam.

The far-right attempts to convince angry, bitter, socially isolated young white men into believing that the West has declared war on them.

You're probably not incorrect about tactics.

But when an American company sends powerful rockets to space and 5 minutes later people in mainstream US media are whining about how the video feed didn't show enough women in the control room, it makes it pretty easy to sell that narrative.

 

[verreauxi]

The Alt-Right is Killing People

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) counted over 100 people killed or injured by alleged perpetrators influenced by the so-called "alt-right" — a movement that continues to access the mainstream and reach young recruits.

On December 7, 2017, a 21-year-old white male posing as a student entered Aztec High School in rural New Mexico and began firing a handgun, killing two students before taking his own life.

At the time, the news of the shooting went largely ignored, but the online activity of the alleged killer, William Edward Atchison, bore all the hallmarks of the “alt-right”—the now infamous subculture and political movement consisting of vicious trolls, racist activists, and bitter misogynists.

But Atchison wasn’t the first to fit the profile of alt-right killer—that morbid milestone belongs to Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old who in 2014 killed seven in Isla Vista, California, after uploading a sprawling manifesto filled with hatred of young women and interracial couples (Atchison went by “Elliot Rodger” in one of his many online personas and lauded the “supreme gentleman,” a title Rodger gave himself and has since become a meme on the alt-right).

Good read; more here:
https://www.splcenter.org/20180205/alt-right-killing-people

 

[ilikecheese]

You're probably not incorrect about tactics.

But when an American company sends powerful rockets to space and 5 minutes later people in mainstream US media are whining about how the video feed didn't show enough women in the control room, it makes it pretty easy to sell that narrative.

Wow...there has to be a but doesn't there?

SMFH.