Since leaving I’ve been grappling with how best to describe what I saw and heard. It was a far-right rally, yes, but many people attended unperturbed by the fact it had been billed as such by many media outlets, including the Guardian. They did not feel alienated by such an extreme, and previously fringe, label.
The shields are failing, Captain.
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"Didn't you hear us when we called them Nazis?"
So was it a far right rally, or just a right rally?
It is a tactic of authoritarians, especially the communists, to insist that there are only two sides. My brother is nearly communist and was regarded as suspiciously conservative when he taught at a Seven Sisters college.
It's a measure of how far left such outlets and such opinion writers are that they can, with straight faces, characterize anyone and any gathering anywhere to the right of center as "far-right."
Eric Hines
If all rapes were prosecuted equally, regardless of whether the perpetrator was an established citizen, a new legal immigrant, an illegal alien, a member of a (formerly) majority ethnicity or religion, or a recently arrived adherent to an alien culture that celebrates rape, I suspect this scary "far right" movement wouldn't be surging. People would focus on the crime and the need to prevent and prosecute it wherever it was found.
But when they see their government deliberately turn a blind eye to rape by a particular demographic, they naturally begin to identify the problem with that demographic. At first the government can get away with complaining that the focus on the coddled demographic is racist, but not forever.
Even if the original perception that rape is more prevalent among certain groups was faulty, it's hard for the public not to conclude that members of the demographic whose name must not be spoken has been significantly emboldened and from now on can be expected to be particularly dangerous. Leftists don't have any trouble concluding that rich privileged white frat boys develop this kind of reputation for a good reason.
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