September 9, 2024

Right wing forces are channeling facts & information into a white supremacist mythology and movement

In Summary

Right-wing forces are shaping facts and information into a white supremacist narrative, using it to fuel a broader movement. This narrative is based on myths and values that tacitly or overtly support violence against marginalized groups such as asylum-seekers, immigrants, Muslims, and political opponents like the Labour party and liberals. Rather than condemning the violence, politicians and people in power have often collaborated with those committing it, using the violence to advance an anti-immigrant agenda. They have justified or excused the violence, shifted blame onto government policies, and promoted the idea that white people are being discriminated against, all while suggesting that more violence is inevitable.

 

Expanded Summary

Right-wing forces are shaping facts and information into a white supremacist narrative, using it to fuel a broader movement. This narrative includes myths and values that support or tacitly accept violence against marginalized groups such as asylum-seekers, immigrants, Muslims, and political opponents like the Labour Party, liberals, and lawyers working on behalf of asylum seekers and migrants.

Rather than condemning the violence, politicians and people in power have often collaborated with those committing it. For example, instead of criticizing those who used violence against the police, property, and people, these leaders worked in partnership with them, using the violence to amplify their political agenda.

They have justified or excused the violence by empathizing with the feelings and logic of those committing it. They have also shifted blame onto government policies, arguing that the violence was caused by the government’s actions, and thereby absolving those who actually carried out the violence of personal responsibility.

Additionally, they have promoted the idea that the Labour government is determined to discriminate against white people. This includes the claim that the government allows non-white communities to commit violence while holding white people accountable for similar actions.

Finally, they have encouraged more violence by spreading the notion that even greater violence is inevitable, thereby fueling further unrest.

 

The Detail

Right wing forces are channeling facts & information into a white supremacist mythology and movement.

The right wing politics of cynicism, already had a set of political messages lined up, which it has used to channel, make sense of all the things that have happened since the violent right wing riots and terrorism started.

The narrative involves a set of myths, values and messages: based on a white supremacist narrative, that supported and promoted (or which sometimes tacitly accepted) violence directed at asylum-seekers, immigrants, Muslims, the Labour party, liberals and lawyers working in the interests of asylum seekers and migrants.

It has also involved politicians and people in positions of power, rather than directly criticising those who have used violence (against the police, property and other people) to attack the rule of law, to rather work in partnership with those committing the violence, by using their violence and the interest that is drummed up by the violence, to to amplify a political agenda:

  • Against immigration and immigrants in particular.
  • Which justified the violence, or empathised or sympathised with the feelings, rationales and logic of those committing the violence.
  • Which blamed the violence on the policies of the government – admonishing those who actually committed the violence from any personal responsibility for having conducted the violence.
  • Which remained silent or excused those committing the violence.
  • Which attempted to fuel an idea that the Labour government were determined to discriminate against white people, by allowing non-white communities to commit violence, whilst holding the white people who exercised the violence during the riots to account.
  • Which encouraged more violence – by spreading the idea that more and greater violence will follow.

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