Page 16 | So does "far right" mean you're concerned about the impacts of mass immigration?

genesis92 · 2025-01-03T16:13:01+00:00

Cause I'm far right if so then! Genuinely interested to hear what people consider as being "far right". I put it in quotation marks cause the term is so over-used incorrectly, it's actually lost all meaning.

CharSiu · 03/01/2025 16:57

My family were immigrants and I am concerned about immigration, I don’t consider myself far right in the least.

izimbra · 03/01/2025 16:55

Blaming everything that's wrong with this country on immigrants is 'far right'.

Referring to immigrants as 'illegals' and 'invaders' is far right.

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genesis92 · 03/01/2025 16:41

I would just like to add, I do not consider myself far right, however it just feels that term is now used for people who want to lower immigration. And to answer a PP - no my concerns about it do not change depending on where a person is from, or whether they are white, black or brown.

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EdithStourton · 03/01/2025 16:41

I'm concerned about mass immigration, and I'm definitely not far right (my paternal family had a pretty shit WWII at the hand of fascists).

Comedycook · 03/01/2025 16:34

Unless you believe in having totally open borders for absolutely anyone who wants to come here....then you are a person with concerns over immigration. I'd imagine virtually everyone thinks we need some sort of controls and policies. Concerns over immigration aren't necessarily far right.

hamstersarse · 03/01/2025 16:29

Far right is a messed up term now. It did traditionally include being against immigration amongst other things (e.g. racial supremacy) but I don't think it is fair to call people who are concerned that multi-culturalism has not worked as planned, a derogatory term.

This is an example of the narrative from the 2006 about the waves of immigration. People were very optimistic - people thought multiculturalism would work, genuinely:

"In time, integration and acceptance are inevitable. No matter how disadvantaged they were when they arrived, every community seems to settle and prosper in the end. The only variable is the speed at which this happens, and it is happening far more quickly than it used to"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jan/23/britishidentity.features118

All together now

London can claim to be the most multicultural place in the world, its population drawn from every race, nation and religion on earth. But what about the rest of Britain? How many new immigrants move here, who are they and where do they settle? As a fol...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jan/23/britishidentity.features118

hamstersarse · 03/01/2025 16:29

Far right is a messed up term now. It did traditionally include being against immigration amongst other things (e.g. racial supremacy) but I don't think it is fair to call people who are concerned that multi-culturalism has not worked as planned, a derogatory term.

This is an example of the narrative from the 2006 about the waves of immigration. People were very optimistic - people thought multiculturalism would work, genuinely:

"In time, integration and acceptance are inevitable. No matter how disadvantaged they were when they arrived, every community seems to settle and prosper in the end. The only variable is the speed at which this happens, and it is happening far more quickly than it used to"

TooBigForMyBoots · 03/01/2025 16:29

No. I have concerns about mass immigration as do many in the UK. It was a big topic at the GE. I'm left of centre and no one has ever called me far right for my my views on immigration or on women's rights.

But I get that you are concerned and far right @genesis92.

BlueSilverCats · 03/01/2025 16:25

Well it depends on what your concerns are and whether those concerns change depending on where someone is from.

Onand · 03/01/2025 16:24

I have concerns about it too but I know I am absolutely not far right.

username299 · 03/01/2025 16:22

Wanting to keep Britain white is far right.
Wanting remigration is far right.
Wanting a two tier system where people of a different ethnicity are treated differently is far right.
Wanting to take away some people's human rights because they're foreign is far right.

Igotjelly · 03/01/2025 16:21

I do think a lot of far right types like to dress up racism and extremist ideology and pretend they’re just ‘concerned about immigration’

Igotjelly · 03/01/2025 16:18

Being concerned about potential impacts of mass immigration is not far right, what’s far right is ultra-nationalism, nativism and xenophobia.