Does anyone remember keyboard macros? They were pretty hot stuff in the early days of internet chat, back when bulletin board systems and GeoCities ruled. Just hit a keyboard shortcut and it would instantly type out any phrase you’d taught it.
I rather suspect mainstream media journalists are still using them, judging by how often they parrot stuff like ‘misinformation and disinformation’, ‘transphobia, homophobia, Islamophobia’ and ‘white supremacist’.
And who could forget the MSM’s go-to favourite: ‘far-right’?
What, though, does ‘far-right’ even mean? Generally, it seems to mean ‘anything to the right of Marx or Mao’ – but that still doesn’t tell us what it is.
Maybe ASIO head Mike Burgess can help us out?
Extreme right-wing propaganda used Covid to portray governments as oppressors, and globalisation, multiculturalism, and democracy as flawed and failing.
No!
That seems a bit harsh. Is it really ‘far-right’ to oppose abusive governments and question their authoritarian methods? Is it ‘far-right’ to pick fault with globalism and multiculturalism? Well then… It must definitely be ‘far-right’ to see flaws in our democracy (unless you want to dismantle democracy entirely – then you’re a social justice warrior).
Mind you, Burgess can’t even bring himself to say ‘Islamic terror’, whenever some swivel-eyed beardy goes all Allahu ackbar with a pressure-cooker bomb, knife or even a car in the centre of Melbourne. No, it’s merely “religiously motivated extremism”, as if the Jehovahs are about to kick in your door and gun down your entire family instead of trying to give you a copy of The Watchtower.
Given their proclivity for spraying the term around like so much confetti, maybe those intellectual titans of the mainstream media can help?
One article said this:
‘These include an ideological commitment to: violent social revolution, a hatred of Islam and other forms of cultural diversity, homophobia, a deep suspicion of the democratic state, and a contorted exaltation of the principle ‘survival of the fittest’. There is also a deep hatred of nature and green-progressive politics.’
Suddenly, the people who’ve been championing Antifa and BLM, both movements openly committed to violent social revolution, are tut-tutting about violent social revolution.
The only people tossing statues aside and demanding ‘the colonies fall’ are on the left. They are the ones with red spray paint on their hands […]
Have you ever heard of your ‘far-right’ conservative friends plotting a violent social revolution? No. Neither have I. The people waving Australian flags, commemorating our sacred days, and demanding the government honour its heritage are hardly treading water in front of a revolution.
Even ‘experts’ like Kate Hannah can’t come up with an actual definition of ‘far-right’, although it apparently has something to do with being interested in healthy food and braiding little girls’ hair.
Also upsetting those on the left is the so-called far-right’s ‘nurturing of womanhood’. How the protection of womanhood has been repainted as a type of far-right evil is unclear. Should we not nurture womanhood? Or is womanhood still seen as a threat to the cold, impersonal order of a communist society.
And if you believe in individual freedom, you might as well be goose-stepping around doing Roman salutes.
‘Far-right politics exalt the individual as a “sovereign citizen” who should be permitted to determine his or her own life choices without interference by governments and their oppressive majorities,’ the authors complain.
Live and let live? What are you? A fascist?
Lushington describes himself as Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. This article was first published HERE
4 comments:
'Far right', 'conservative' and the loony fringe of conspiracy theorising are being conflated here.
Forget the third - nutcases are to be found among all political persuasions.
To be 'conservative' means to want to maintain or return to some long-established social order. In the West we usually associate this with, inter alia, advocates of capitalism, but when the USSR disintegrated and Russia started reeling towards a Western model of governance, the BBC reporters started referring to the communists as 'conservatives' - rightly so given the foregoing definition.
In Amurrica, the term 'conservative' evokes images of redneck Christians who want to see mandatory prayer in schools and the persecution of homosexuals, to name just two. To a European conservative, that's simply off the wall. Europeans conservatives tend to be secularists and to live by dicta such as "no victim, no crime" and "live and let live".
The term 'far right' until recently was reserved for neo-nazis but nowadays it appears to refer to people who believe in equality of all before the law.
What does "far right" mean?
Individuals pushing back against the "collective" mob/tribe.
The common use of the term "far right" by the (Left wing) media basically means any opinion or view that disagrees with the current left wing Labour party/msm.
Byron Clark wrote a book called "Fear" in which he uses the terms far-right, alt-right etc very freely. However nowhere in the book does he actually define the term. He includes Groundswell in his list of "far-right" groups !
Passing thought: how often do we hear the msm use the phrase "Far Left" ?
Basically Never !
People are complex creatures and often have complex motives for holding an opinion. It's far easier for critics of those opinions to dismiss them by attaching a shallow label than actually addressing the issues raised. This is demonstrated daily in the commentaries offered on this and any other social media platform. All that demonstrates is an intellectual failure on the part of the commentators who are content to make ad hominem attacks but can't or won't mount a rational argument on the issues. They lack credibility and forfeit the right to be taken seriously in any debate.
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