Post by Teddy Bear on May 17, 2013 19:33:20 GMT
The leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage, was in Scotland trying to drum up support for his party. You can read this article to understand what first happened to him there.
The next morning he was interviewed on the Today programme for BBC radio Scotland. You can listen to the 5 minute attack he faced from the interviewer here, until Farage told him he'd had enough of his insults, and hung up.
In the BBC article about the incident with the 'protesters', as the BBC refers to them, I notice they make no reference to their left-wing mindset. Quite a contrast as when EDL attended a peaceful rally recently in Denmark, the BBC headline made it clear from the outset EDL takes part in far-right European rally in Denmark
We can also see in the BBC article comments from Alex Salmond of the SDP doing as much as he can to affirm the desired negative BBC view of Farage.
Douglas Murray notes in his article above that these protesters have the mindset 'that their rigid belief system is the only correct one and that all opponents are ‘scum’ who must be ‘smashed’
Well when we see the BBC Scotland radio interviewer clearly of the same mindset as these 'protesters', and as equally repulsive, with no attempt at balance or impartiality, is it any wonder then that these protesters believe their thoughts to be the only ones worth considering?
Some anti-fascists are very fascistic
Douglas Murray
Nigel Farage has just met one of the most fascinating aspects of modern politics.
He was surrounded in Edinburgh by left-wing ‘anti-fascists’ shouting ‘Racist scum. Go back to England’. The same mob also screamed ‘scum’ repeatedly at the top of their voice until they made him leave. This is probably the best demonstration so far of something which has gone un-remarked upon for too long.
Among the closest thing we have to fascists in modern Britain are people who call themselves ‘anti-fascists’. Not all people who call themselves ‘anti-fascist’, thank goodness. But a sizable portion. If you ever see these people in action you will notice that they behave in exactly the way you would expect their alleged opponents to behave. It is not just their behaviour (screaming, shouting, marching, fighting, threatening, brawling etc) that is so evocative of fascism. It is the belief that their rigid belief system is the only correct one and that all opponents are ‘scum’ who must be ‘smashed’ (this really is the language they use).
Their targets now include people who are actual anti-fascists. I have written here before of how Hope not Hate, an ‘anti-fascist’ group took it upon itself to publish a top-ten hit-list of ‘Islamophobes’, one of whom – a Danish journalist and free-speech advocate – was subsequently visited by an assassin. In recent weeks Hope not Hate have been mulling over whether to campaign against UKIP as well as the BNP. By crossing such lines ‘anti-fascists’ do more than strip terms we need of any meaning. They turn language and politics upside down.
Douglas Murray
Nigel Farage has just met one of the most fascinating aspects of modern politics.
He was surrounded in Edinburgh by left-wing ‘anti-fascists’ shouting ‘Racist scum. Go back to England’. The same mob also screamed ‘scum’ repeatedly at the top of their voice until they made him leave. This is probably the best demonstration so far of something which has gone un-remarked upon for too long.
Among the closest thing we have to fascists in modern Britain are people who call themselves ‘anti-fascists’. Not all people who call themselves ‘anti-fascist’, thank goodness. But a sizable portion. If you ever see these people in action you will notice that they behave in exactly the way you would expect their alleged opponents to behave. It is not just their behaviour (screaming, shouting, marching, fighting, threatening, brawling etc) that is so evocative of fascism. It is the belief that their rigid belief system is the only correct one and that all opponents are ‘scum’ who must be ‘smashed’ (this really is the language they use).
Their targets now include people who are actual anti-fascists. I have written here before of how Hope not Hate, an ‘anti-fascist’ group took it upon itself to publish a top-ten hit-list of ‘Islamophobes’, one of whom – a Danish journalist and free-speech advocate – was subsequently visited by an assassin. In recent weeks Hope not Hate have been mulling over whether to campaign against UKIP as well as the BNP. By crossing such lines ‘anti-fascists’ do more than strip terms we need of any meaning. They turn language and politics upside down.
The next morning he was interviewed on the Today programme for BBC radio Scotland. You can listen to the 5 minute attack he faced from the interviewer here, until Farage told him he'd had enough of his insults, and hung up.
In the BBC article about the incident with the 'protesters', as the BBC refers to them, I notice they make no reference to their left-wing mindset. Quite a contrast as when EDL attended a peaceful rally recently in Denmark, the BBC headline made it clear from the outset EDL takes part in far-right European rally in Denmark
We can also see in the BBC article comments from Alex Salmond of the SDP doing as much as he can to affirm the desired negative BBC view of Farage.
Douglas Murray notes in his article above that these protesters have the mindset 'that their rigid belief system is the only correct one and that all opponents are ‘scum’ who must be ‘smashed’
Well when we see the BBC Scotland radio interviewer clearly of the same mindset as these 'protesters', and as equally repulsive, with no attempt at balance or impartiality, is it any wonder then that these protesters believe their thoughts to be the only ones worth considering?