It’s happening with the Gillets Jaune here in France. Of course there are far-right extremist “casseurs”, but a lot of them are actually left wing anarchists. I’ve also heard AntiFa are involved.

Read an article earlier on claiming there were Russian influences too. I mean, what the ****.

Reply 7

Occitanie

You reap what you sow.

Reply 8

anythinggoeshe

anything other than Brexit is an affront to the democratic process and consequentially those who have been betrayed may view democracy in the same way as the establishment views democracy. You reap what you sow.

Reply 9

username521617

Original post by Occitanie

Including nuance would mean actually having to do real journalism. It's much easier to write a simplistic account that panders to a certain political persuasion.

Reply 10

AperfectBalance

Funny how they call Antifa "anti-fascist" these disgusting communists and anarchists need to be called out for what they really are. Very funny how the leftist loonies see this as "the peoples vote" as long as you are "people" that they agree with.

Reply 11

Trinculo

Anything that the left doesn't like is automatically "the far-right".

There is virtually no far-right movement in Britain, nor has there been for generations - it's just a handy bogeyman for anything that people don't like.

Reply 12

AngeryPenguin

Original post by AperfectBalance

Funny how they call Antifa "anti-fascist"

Almost as though Antifa is actually short for "anti-fascist"...

Reply 13

DSilva

Original post by Dandaman1

Including nuance would mean actually having to do real journalism. It's much easier to write a simplistic account that panders to a certain political persuasion.

Quite. Not like the political right who are known for their political nuance. Remember when the Daily Mail had a front page of three judges with the headline 'ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE'? I guess that was 'real' journalism.

Reply 14

DSilva

Original post by Trinculo

Yeah the BNP and EDL weren't far-right?

(edited 5 years ago)

Reply 15

AperfectBalance

Original post by AngeryPenguin

Almost as though Antifa is actually short for "anti-fascist"...

You would not see a newspaper call the DPRK democratic, they would probably put 'democratic' or something else to show that the name doesn't exactly match the actual description.

Reply 16

AperfectBalance

Original post by DSilva

Yeah the BNP and EDL definitely weren't far right were they? I mean yeah the former denied the Holocaust and banned black people from being members of the party, but criticism of that is just 'political correctness gone mad' am I right?

You mean a very small bunch of idiots still fits the "virtually no far right groups" thing.

As for calling out people as "enemies of the people" so what? people need to be calling out communists and union as enemies of progress.

Reply 17

DSilva

Original post by AperfectBalance

So apart from the far right groups, there are no far right groups? Got it.

Calling judges 'enemies of the people' for making a correct legal decision is the type of headline that belonged in 1940s Germany. Though perhaps you could enlighten us with your legal expertise.

Reply 18

username521617

Original post by DSilva

I never said this was unique to the Left. It's a problem with news media in general.

Reply 19

AperfectBalance

Original post by DSilva

"There is virtually no far-right movement in Britain"
Calling the BNP or EDL a big movement is silly, it would be like calling me and my friends going on holiday a mass migration.

So people cannot be enemies of the people?