The euphemisation of far right politics over decades has led to the inability to call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute and fascist politics fascism
The use of populism, Euroscepticism, nationalism/nativism have all played a role in diluting and minimising the threat often based on the FR's own wishes
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The use of populism, Euroscepticism, nationalism/nativism have all played a role in diluting and minimising the threat often based on the FR's own wishes
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The media and academia have a lot to answer to (and I include myself in it as I did use terms carelessly)
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I found a combination of populist hype and absence of focus on racism and whiteness in the framing of 'far right studies'
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41269-022-00271-6
I think there has been progress but by and large, gatekeeping practices and the hierarchic and conservative nature of academia has meant that it is difficult to shift
This situation is as much if not more our failure than the far right's success
This is the bare minimum
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What I find most interesting is the reaction in triggers in some...
False equivalence and horseshoe theorising have been incredibly helpful to destroy the possibility of a leftwing alternative while legitimising the far right as one to the status quo
If you're interested, I have written quite a bit about these issues, and most recent stuff is in my pinned thread :)
The amount of time and energy wasted trying to prove that x and y were doing something on purpose or not rather than looking at the impact, power and politics is astonishing
Obviously, it all served a purpose too, whether consciously or not