Back in 2016 I wrote on here about how the word ‘racist’ had become overused and had therefore lost much of its power and made the point that maybe the word ‘racialist’ should be revived to do the job that ‘racism’ used to do but now can’t because of over and inappropriate use. When the representatives and supporters of the left scream ‘racist’ at people now I’m noticing that it has less and less effect on those who are targeted by it.
This word has become, in the hands of the progressive Left, a mere ‘snarl word’, proffered in place of facts in a debate, when leftists encounter views that run counter to theirs. When a lefty shouts ‘you are racist’ at me these days then I just shrug my shoulders and move on and say ‘so what? I take this view not because I’m a racialist who believes in the superiority or inferiority of different races, but because the over and inappropriate use of the word racist by leftists has rendered the word virtually worthless in terms of power.
As someone who back in the late 70’s and early 80’s saw the real far right at work and play I’m noticing that the left and the media that lean that way are making the same mistake regarding the term ‘far right’ as they did with the word racist. Personally I believe that this is a dangerous path to go down. If the descriptor of ‘far right’ is misused to the point that the word loses all its meaning then there will be no suitable word or phrase to use when a genuinely far right group comes along.
Patrick O’Flynn commenting on social media and quoting from a post by Ex Army Paz49 has made a very good point about the misuse and overuse of the term far right. Mr O’Flynn said:
Mr O’Flynn is correct in what he says. When everything that the left disagree with is considered as ‘far right’ then it creates a space in which genuine far rightists can operate. The lunacy of considering, as too much of the left these days do, basic things such as border security, the non-molestation of children and free speech as ‘far right’ means that the distinction between far right and non-far right politics is erased.
Bastards that the far right were and are, they’ve been a busted flush and often a joke, in the UK for decades.
In reality the worst have at least from the early sixties, were and are the extreme Left, they supported every terrorist, murderer, Jew hater especially their favourite terrorists, “palestine”. There isn’t a bloody leftie who doesn’t worship “palestine”.
In the UK at least the genuine far right hasn’t really been any sort of big threat since the seventies and that is in regards to street politics and street thuggery. Since the end of WWII the far right has been an electoral dead end and Britons have rarely chosen the real far right as Parliamentary or local govt representatives. They are less of a threat to me and mine than the far left.
However my point stands about the overuse of the term and I agree with Mr O’Flynn in that having the far right very identifiable has helped keep them down but muddying the waters and including even reasonable stuff, such as being opposed to paediatric gender mutilation, as far right helps the genuine far right hide their true nature and gather support.
This is how Hitler got in. What sounded like reasonable policies and then when in power the clampdown.
All it takes is for us to vote for someone different who makes the right noises. Worked for Doris. I’m ready to do that now. Let’s upset the applecart.
A worry that I have is that things will get so bad that people will start to look for alternatives not in the reasonable centre left or centre right but in the world of extremes of either left or right.
Yes, but you seem to be implying that the ‘left’ is a Satanic entity to be obliterated as soon as possible in favour of centre right policies and opinions who represent ‘common decency’.
Socialism is partly a view that not we cannot maintain the well being of a society dominated solely by an economy based on market forces and we need public investment as well as private, and that capitalism can be mis-used towards excessive wealth gathering by interests who then gain an undue and undemocratic political influence, as opposed to re-investment of their profits into the economy for the common good.
I don’t believe in Satan therefore that cannot be my view. I do however take the view that socialism is an enemy of humanity and freedom and is an ideology that has failed every time it has been tried.
Your point of view about capitalism working hand in hand with the public sector in order to create social good is similar to the policy of the Social Democratic Party that leans left economically but right socially.
* that we cannot*, typo, oops