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Politics of hate

Thursday, 02 July 2009 18:08

As you point out the far-right has pioneered a form of Internet & newspaper politics where any opposing opinions are shouted down and 'facts' never get in the way of a good argument. They seem to have a position of extreme zealotry over many issues which makes little sense to the person in the street. For example, health & safety & similar inspectorates most of the time do an important job (i.e. lowering the death-toll from work accidents, making sure your house doesn't fall down due to bad building practices etc.), yet in Mail-land they're always evil creatures seeking to make our lives a misery. Ditto for many other issues - the BBC, Facebook, teenagers, the unemployed etc. In their eyes the world isn't a complex place where every life is different - its always the same "You're not one of us, therefore you are vermin". Generally speaking the left doesn't engage constantly in those sort of attacks to rile up the populace - if they did we'd regularly have revolutionaries carrying out citizens arrests of bankers, politicians, royals and the like while engaged in a civil war against the ruling class. The sad truth is its a lot harder to analyse the complexities of a situation than it is to just say "Ban this! Lock them up! Starve them!" Also, concerning Hari and Littlejohn I think one big difference is Littlejohn's writing is abysmal and he constantly writes the same thing. At least Hari appears to have a fairly wide knowledge of the world around him (even if you disagree with what he writes).

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