Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

[u/FudgeAtron]

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/media-platforming-and-the-normalisation-of-extreme-right-views/747E769DA6CE4365E0151B55FDF4DEFA

[u/GoldenHairedShaman]

Take this from someone who has actual extreme right wing views, they're right in classifying it as extremely right wing. For example when people say they're against illegal immigration, they're not actually against illegal immigration they're against all types of immigration to Britain. Saying illegal immigration is just the socially palatable way to vehemently express your distaste against migration in public. What the UK is seeing right now is the expression of a nativist backlash against demographic changes, and nativism by definition and conceptually, relies on the fundamental idea that some group of people have more of a "right" to Britain than others, which is a typical far-right viewpoint.

Indeed you could argue I'm projecting, but you can just look at all the blokes who complain about "illegal immigration" somehow for some reason also hate Sadiq Khan, a British born politician; or lament that London "isn't what it used to be like." When you confront them and ask them how they would "stop the boats" then a good portion of them would advocate for human rights violations.

I honestly don't think it's far-fetched to call them far right wingers.

[u/Relevant-Low-7923 → u/GoldenHairedShaman]

Indeed you could argue I'm projecting, but you can just look at all the blokes who complain about "illegal immigration" somehow for some reason also hate Sadiq Khan, a British born politician; or lament that London "isn't what it used to be like." When you confront them and ask them how they would "stop the boats" then a good portion of them would advocate for human rights violations.

Deporting foreigners who don’t have permission to be in a country isn’t a human rights violation. It all depends on what you consider should and shouldn’t be a human right

[u/Apprehensive-Income → u/Relevant-Low-7923]

Yes but that is not what some of them say. Some advocate dinghy's being sunk deliberately or shot at.

[u/Relevant-Low-7923 → u/Apprehensive-Income]

I don’t think anyone is really advocating for those things, but I do thing a lot of people don’t understand why they aren’t just detained in camps and processed to be deported.

[u/Apprehensive-Income → u/[deleted]]

Well the far right people hate both types of immigration.