"The idea that this new grotesque version of the Right has leapt out of the shadows is absurd. They’ve been gestating in the pages of the tabloid media and think-tanks and back-room pubs for decades, ready for this." You can add Channel 4 news and the BBC to this.
The first time I seen this clown come to prominence was on Channel 4 news a few years ago. They had him doing wee cameos doing interviews with various people. You can throw Question Time into the mix in promoting Right Wing nutters. Gave up on both of them long time ago.
An excellent piece of writing.... just finished cleaning the garage and the Velux windows...a total nightmare especially if you have neglected them. So your article fair cheered me up..especially the nuclear powered wee boat wi' nae' lavvies.
I am waiting for a huge asteroid tae hit us and basically that will finish what has been a grand few days Gromit. Can it get any worse?..oh aye....keeping my fingers crossed anyway.
For OUR Scotland and her weans who do have lavvies...
Good raucous collapsarian analysis, but apart from the highly entertaining fear porn aspect, are we any closer to knowing what is to be done? And does anyone really care about "antisemitism" any more, even (especially) on the identitarian "Left"?
My own thoughts entirely. However, as part of your collapsarian litany, you chose to include the following: “In Manchester, Reform UK’s Campaign Manager for the Gorton and Denton By-Election, Adam Mitula, has been suspended because of Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism.”
But maybe there is another way to read it after all. Perhaps it is not only me who has been yearning for the liberal world order to collapse for at least the last 23 years, but everyone has been secretly desiring this? And it’s true that Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism used to be examples of Very Bad Things until quite recently. But now I hardly know anyone who thinks this way.
I think the salient question here is not whether Holocaust Denial is bad, but whether it is meaningful. I mean, surely everybody does know and accept that Hitler had a plan to exterminate people identified as "Jews" according to pseudoscientific racialist principles. Then one may quibble over the precise numbers he succeeded in exterminating, etc., bearing in mind that other categories of human being were also selected for extermination according to equally dubious principles, but this is hardly substantially relevant. The substantial question then is not whether "the Holocaust" happened, but what it means. And what it might seem to mean – or, in any case, to have meant – does seem to acquire a different resonance in the light of the present ongoing genocide, which does appear to also be being carried out according to pseudoscientific racialist principles used to identify people as "Jews" or "non-Jews".
I have no idea what kind of "Holocaust" your Reform councillor is thought to have denied or what kind of "Semitic" he is considered to have been "anti", but I do know that such accusations cannot be taken at face value any more.
Well, you must have chosen to include this detail for a reason. Or at least, your readers have to assume this. The way it reads (to me) is that such outbreaks of Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism are indicators of the way that things are collapsing, which is something that right-minded people should try to put a stop to, although it’s not yet entirely clear how.
But then I speak as a former lefty, who is completely apolitical on good days, but on better days flirts with what is euphemised as the "far right". For example, I was reading this excellent interview with Alain de Benoist yesterday https://substack.com/inbox/post/188959468. This made me greatly want to read the special edition of his journal Nouvelle École devoted to Carl Schmidt. Still can't seem to find the journal though. Perhaps it has been blacklisted by Google due to being too dangerous to its liberal sensibilities / corporate profitability.
"The idea that this new grotesque version of the Right has leapt out of the shadows is absurd. They’ve been gestating in the pages of the tabloid media and think-tanks and back-room pubs for decades, ready for this." You can add Channel 4 news and the BBC to this.
Would you put C4 News up there too John?
Yes, I would. Think it all started with their promotion of Rees - Mogg.
Channel 4 News have been promoting Jacob Rees-Mogg?
The first time I seen this clown come to prominence was on Channel 4 news a few years ago. They had him doing wee cameos doing interviews with various people. You can throw Question Time into the mix in promoting Right Wing nutters. Gave up on both of them long time ago.
Puts frothing over CalMac ferries into perspective!!
An excellent piece of writing.... just finished cleaning the garage and the Velux windows...a total nightmare especially if you have neglected them. So your article fair cheered me up..especially the nuclear powered wee boat wi' nae' lavvies.
I am waiting for a huge asteroid tae hit us and basically that will finish what has been a grand few days Gromit. Can it get any worse?..oh aye....keeping my fingers crossed anyway.
For OUR Scotland and her weans who do have lavvies...
Good raucous collapsarian analysis, but apart from the highly entertaining fear porn aspect, are we any closer to knowing what is to be done? And does anyone really care about "antisemitism" any more, even (especially) on the identitarian "Left"?
What has this got to do with antisemitism? #confused
My own thoughts entirely. However, as part of your collapsarian litany, you chose to include the following: “In Manchester, Reform UK’s Campaign Manager for the Gorton and Denton By-Election, Adam Mitula, has been suspended because of Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism.”
Yes. And?
But maybe there is another way to read it after all. Perhaps it is not only me who has been yearning for the liberal world order to collapse for at least the last 23 years, but everyone has been secretly desiring this? And it’s true that Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism used to be examples of Very Bad Things until quite recently. But now I hardly know anyone who thinks this way.
You don’t know anyone who thinks Holocaust Denial is bad?
I think the salient question here is not whether Holocaust Denial is bad, but whether it is meaningful. I mean, surely everybody does know and accept that Hitler had a plan to exterminate people identified as "Jews" according to pseudoscientific racialist principles. Then one may quibble over the precise numbers he succeeded in exterminating, etc., bearing in mind that other categories of human being were also selected for extermination according to equally dubious principles, but this is hardly substantially relevant. The substantial question then is not whether "the Holocaust" happened, but what it means. And what it might seem to mean – or, in any case, to have meant – does seem to acquire a different resonance in the light of the present ongoing genocide, which does appear to also be being carried out according to pseudoscientific racialist principles used to identify people as "Jews" or "non-Jews".
I have no idea what kind of "Holocaust" your Reform councillor is thought to have denied or what kind of "Semitic" he is considered to have been "anti", but I do know that such accusations cannot be taken at face value any more.
As compared with the genocide that is ongoing in our own time, not very much, no.
Well, you must have chosen to include this detail for a reason. Or at least, your readers have to assume this. The way it reads (to me) is that such outbreaks of Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism are indicators of the way that things are collapsing, which is something that right-minded people should try to put a stop to, although it’s not yet entirely clear how.
But then I speak as a former lefty, who is completely apolitical on good days, but on better days flirts with what is euphemised as the "far right". For example, I was reading this excellent interview with Alain de Benoist yesterday https://substack.com/inbox/post/188959468. This made me greatly want to read the special edition of his journal Nouvelle École devoted to Carl Schmidt. Still can't seem to find the journal though. Perhaps it has been blacklisted by Google due to being too dangerous to its liberal sensibilities / corporate profitability.
Ah look, there it is! But only in French, and only available in paper format! Don't you just love these extreme righties! https://www.revue-elements.com/produit/carl-schmitt/