Chestnut
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No, you cannot assume that anyone who objects to the poisonous vocabulary of the right wing media is "left wing" Chestnut .
We are just people who reject the lazy knee-jerk stirring up of hate that is the bedrock of right wing populism.
Not what I said. I refer to the deliberate ridicule and mocking of right wing people (or the channel). Nothing to do with objecting to the content (what the person or channel actually said or proposed). There's a difference.
Lucca said she doesn't like words like woke brigade being used. Well I don't like people being ridiculed. I'm pretty sure you won't find posters insulting and ridiculing left wing people in that same nasty way.
I see myself on the liberal left - generally live and let live with a strong social conscience. You ask why people endlessly ridicule anyone or anything they feel is right wing. I don't think that is what is happening. I wouldn't be pleased if Marxism took over my country and I am equally not happy that the far-right is trying to but although I would disagree with an old-style Conservative I don't think I would ridicule them - we may well agree on some things.
Why do my values of 'live and let live' not extend to the far-right? Because my conscience tells me it is right to support those who differ from me in matters of faith, race and culture but not those who oppose my political views to such an extreme.
The answer lies in my understanding of what it is to be far-right. They wish to oppress, devalue and discriminate against others. This is far from what I believe in. It's a paradox but what I cannot and will not tolerate is intolerance and we have never seen as much of this way of thinking, during my lifetime, as we do currently.
Someone said in an earlier post that they were tired and sad that my views are being ignored. If those views come within the general sphere of politics you are right to be upset although having declared the standard right-wing phrase you have not yet explained it, as you were asked to. However, if those views are far-right I despise them and will continue to make that plain. We have had to live through and with the outcome of the mocked-up sense of urgency that suggested the nation was in peril against an external threat and that we are not patriotic if we don't defend it. A standard part of a far-right agenda.
We have seen throughout history the persecution of people of colour, homosexuals, Jews, Muslims and other minority groups. During the Brexit referendum, we saw Nigel Farage's infamous Breaking Point poster which sought to depict immigrants as invaders to unite and mobilise the far-right against this common 'enemy.' Now the far-right talk about people as 'illegals' just as the propaganda in the 1930s/40s Germany talked about parasites - a word I have now seen used by those of the far-right to group together and blame those in need of help via benefits.
Ridiculed - that is just what I think these far-right supporters are doing to our democracy. If you fit this category you may well find people are inclined to speak out against your views, but I doubt they are being ignored.
