How white supremacists around the world are being connected

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Far-right movements are obsessed with particularity, with treasuring an ostensibly unique ethnic, racial, cultural and national identity. The forces of globalisation are pitched as their mortal foe, whether embodied by “globalists”, “cultural Marxists”, Muslim immigrants, Jews, or a conspiracy between the four. Tarrant’s manifesto, like that of other far-right declarations both before and since, is rooted in these anxieties. But it also speaks to another of today’s more paradoxical trends: the globalisation of ethno-nationalism and far-right thought.
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Aided by the internet, this shared discourse of in-jokes, symbols, bad history and conspiracy theories is becoming easier to find.
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“I believe,” Ronald Reagan declared in 1989, “that more than armies, more than diplomacy, more than the best intentions of democratic nations, the communications revolution will be the greatest force for the advancement of human freedom the world has ever seen.” But in this moment of global unravelling, it is today’s ethno-nationalists – whether at its terroristic fringe or increasingly electable core – who have every reason to feel optimistic. Their cause is ascendant; the liberal world order is in crisis.

[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/2019/10/how-white-supremacists-around-world-are-being-connected|]

Bleak but interesting reading.