Far-Right? Lefty Rag Gets Lefty Prof To Justify Smear!
At last The Leftal has taken up the gauntlet which we here have cast down at their feet – not just them, of course, but many other left-liberal media – on the use of the term ‘far-right’ to describe patriot parties.
In this case it’s the AfD in Germany, and it seems ‘many readers’ have raised questions about the pejorative smear.
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So to justify their insult, The Local turned to an impartial umpire…NOT!
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“Yes, I think the AfD is part of the far-right,” Cas Mudde, associate professor at the University of Georgia, and researcher at Oslo University’s Centre for Research on Extremism, told us.
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This large Dutchman is hardly a disinterested observer. Though he has a rightwing brother, he’s made it clear that he himself is NOT! In one of his books, he thanks him for the respect they still have for each other despite “differences of opinion”
For a still better measure of our Mr. Mudde’s pinkoism, we have the fact that he found it ‘staggering’ when 85% of Europeans surveyed on crime expressed the perfectly rational view that “nowadays there is too much tolerance. Criminals should be punished more severely.”
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-08-31-mudde-en.html
To whom would self-evident truth be ‘staggering,’ except to a left-liberal?
The Leftal does quote a University of Rostock political scientist Christian Nestler who takes a mildly different stance. viz. far-right is too general a term and he would classify the AfD as right-wing populists, adding that members of the party were indeed right-wing extremists.
But The Local will without doubt embrace the Mudde Doctrine, and can be expected to continue with its fallacious ‘far-right’ smear campaign…
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…to besmirch the AfD.
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But the abject failure of The Local/Leftal ever to describe either the Greens – True Colours? Europhiliac Trio Honour Dear Red! —
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…or the Red Die Linke (Left Party) as ‘far-left’ –One of Ulbricht’s Heirs, Complicit in Crimmigration! – which they clearly are – will continue!
Just goes to show that those who control most ‘mainstream’ news sites are incapable of fair reporting. .
Louis FitzP, and 
Pat Kincaid are discussing. 
rossrightangle 
Pat Kincaid 02:42 on October 3, 2016 Permalink |
What you say, Ross, about the media failing to ID openly far left factions like Die Linke and the Greens as far left while they happily slap a ‘far right’ label on every patriotic party, is perfectly fair comment. It shows their bias.
But it would have been better if you had told us what kind of party you think really would deserve a ‘far right” tag.
There must be some?
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Louis FitzP 22:35 on October 3, 2016 Permalink |
I agree, Pat.
I wonder how extreme a party has to be before Ross will call it ‘far-right.’
C’mon, Ross, enlighten us.
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ross1948 08:41 on October 4, 2016 Permalink
Good morning, Louis, and to Pat who asked the question first.
I would say that the term ‘far right’ might apply to a party that calls for a return to absolute monarchy, or for an anti-communist military dictatorship.
Patriotic parties that support democracy, like the AfD or the FPO, and wish to use democratic means, like referenda, to achieve patriotic objectives, like deliverance from supranational control, expulsion of illegal immigrants, etc., can be classified as right-wing, hardly far right.
I think the slapdash use of ‘far right’ we see these days in The Local and other media is clearly unacceptable, although it would be less objectionable if balanced by an equivalent ‘far left’ categorisation of those ‘Greens’ and parties like ‘The Left’ in Germany. We have recorded how often some German politicians have made it clear they are not committed to democratic views except insofar as it suits their agenda.That’s the real scandal of extremism in European politics at the moment.
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