Far-right violence is on the rise. Where is the outrage?
The far right is emboldened, legitimised and ever more violent, and hate crimes are surging. When we discuss Islamist fundamentalist terrorists, we ask: who are the hate preachers radicalising them in mosques or the internet? We have yet to engage seriously in a similar debate about far-right terrorism for a simple reason: the hate preachers are mainstream politicians, commentators and media outlets
.The hate preachers radicalising far-right extremists are not ranting on soap boxes on street corners: they get splashed on front pages. They use rhetoric such as Enemies of the people and Crush the saboteurs; they deploy distortions, myths, half-truths and lies to whip up hatred against Muslims, migrants and refugees, and to scapegoat them for crimes committed by the powerful.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/22/far-right-violence-on-rise-where-is-outrage|
All over the West we are seeing this rise in violence... they have been emboldened to such an exist trying to get back to the civilised societies we are used to is going to be a real challenge.