To think MN is suddenly full of hard right extremists?

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I can't believe what I'm reading today.

Some of the comments of the bacon/mosque attack sentencing thread and also on the Jack Monroe/ sanction petition thread are just breathtakingly nasty. Other threads too.

What's happened? They aren't all new names. Some are. Is it an influx altering the mood here? Or does it reflect the national shift?

I think that MN mainly reflects the champagne socialist type of Islington left winger. The sort who lives in a big house with a Polish nanny and Romanian cleaner, and is terrified that Brexit will make the wages of the nanny and cleaner go up. I have a first in Economics from a high-ranking university, but I've still been accused of being uneducated because I voted to leave. On the other side, MN can actually be right wing in some cases, as most people on here seem to believe that men with good careers need a woman at home, so a wife who divorces should get maintenance until the year dot because she "enabled" her husband to work. This doesn't reflect what I see around me, where people need to work just to get by. I agree apart from the vote to leave part. I am a fervent Remainer but that does not give me the right to slag off people who voted differently. I don't feel superior either.
My DF was to the right of Attila the Hun and we used to fight like cat and dog over things but he would never have voted to Leave. It's all very black and white thinking on here. Actually a bit childish.

Yes I have noticed. Not just on hers but IRL, too. A women with 4 kids actually said to me. I'm glad they're cutting tax credits after the second child. That'll stop people having fucking babies. I was that dumbfounded. I couldn't speak.
So either she is the biggest hypocrit ever to grace the planet or even the poor are being brain washed about themselves.
Aka spending too much time watching channel 5.

Islington champagne socialists
Speak for yourself.

I think MN, traditionally, has been dominated by left-wing luvvies, but more recently has - refreshingly - seen a more diverse range of viewpoints.

However, as a Leave voter, I had to hide a lot of Brexit threads because of the appalling vitriol and nastiness of Remainers. It really was shocking. Like pp, I was told I was uneducated and a bigot who hadn't a clue why I had voted; and that I had believed lies.

I knew exactly why I was voting - nothing to do with immigration, nothing to do with believing lies - and I have a first class degree and a PhD. Hardly uneducated.