AIBU to think this quote sums up Tommy Robinson and his supporters?

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The quote is taken from the British philosopher Bertrand Russell's essay on Fascim in 1940,

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."

To me it sums them up, but it sums up a lot of the far right in general. The same could be said about Farage and many of his supporters too.

No, gender is a human concept. Some fish have adapted to change sex.

Humans are not fish.

No human has changed sex.

What has that got to do with anything? Are you a fish? Humans can’t change sex that’s the reality of it

i think someone has been on a HR mandated course!

I know it’s ‘religious exemption’ but as it allows a specific group to do something that the rest of us can’t, it is a special privilege.

If that privilege is abused it should be withdrawn.

In fact I think we should look at all ‘religious exemptions’ and reconsider whether they are compatible with Western society. For example, non stun religious slaughter has an exemption from UK and EU animal welfare laws - why?

Millions and millions of animals are now slaughtered in a way we deem to be cruel because it’s a ‘religious requirement’. Why?

FISH! 🐠 😅🤣😂 Oh dear! And male Sea horses gestate embryos but you do realise that doesn't mean humans can!

Tommy Robinsons has been silenced by the authorities.

Yes they can. Transgender people are anywhere up to 2% of the population and they have existed in civilisations across the globe for millenia. You can't just say something doesn't exist because it doesn't suit your particular worldview, seriously how have the left become so antiscience all of a sudden?

He wants to exclude Zionists. That's about 80-90% of British Jews (according to polling). Not very inclusive is he.

He also went on a tirade about excluding right wingers from society altogether (that would include moderates like Kemi Badenoch and most of the conservative party).

God knows what his version on "to exclude" means. I bet it's radical.

The man is a nutcase and a fraud.

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Is this parody? I honestly can't tell anymore. Humans aren't fish.

Right wingers should be excluded from society, he's absolutely on the ball there and I'm glad he has the gumption to tell it how it is. Some 'opinions' are just too damaging for society and we have a particular problem with young white men feeling 'disenfranchised' and getting radicalised by these venomous wretches.

Can you not see a problem with saying that one group should just be excluded from society? What do you think this completely disenfranchised group would end up doing? Take up knitting blankets for the homeless and needy? And why do you get to decide who is cast out from society? Why not the people who find your views distasteful and prejudiced?

That’s the problem right there in that post. What do you suggests happens to these excluded right wingers?! Shot at dawn? Camps?

Obviously not, more like banned from social media and any place of employment that involves working with young people and/or public speaking. I can't think of specific policy off the top of my head but you get the jist.

Who in your opinion do you class as right wing? Those with gender critical beliefs? Those who speak out about out of control immigration? I'd be interested to know which groups you wish to silence and banish.

Agree

It's a pisstake. They're probably typing a post right now saying 'anyone who disagrees with Zack Polanski'.

This.

Being anti-immigration is certainly right wing. I have it on good authority from some of the gender critical women on this very website that gender critical people are absolutely not right wing, though I struggle to believe that personally. Anything that leans towards authoritarianism would be generally considered right wing.

I would say banishing certain groups from society leans very much towards authoritarianism.

So people whose political views you dislike should be excluded from society? You know what type of dictator that makes you sound like?

Wanting our government to properly control our borders is not ‘right wing’ btw. I mean it was what Starmer promised to do at the election.

Is he now ‘right wing’. Is Shabana Mahmood ‘right wing’.

He was talking about a particular kind of gang. White British rape and grooming gangs aren't in Yaxley-Lennon's sights for some peculiar reason. In fact he seems to be very friendly with some rapists and groomers, and many of his followers have convictions for sexual and domestic abuse. He could start campaigning against them - he could easily identify the perpetrators. Yet he chooses not to. All a bit odd. 🙄

Anything that leans towards authoritarianism would be generally considered right wing.

So you, the Green Party and the Labour Party are all right wing? Good to know. Weird that Starmer is trying to disenfranchise himself though. You sound confused.

People like other people to be miserable and under control. We saw that during Covid. People, who had seemed reasonable before, were damaging cars and reporting neighbours. As well as personal attacks across SM etc about who wasn't clapping. We see in a lot of posters they live by ridiculous restrictions around, food, buying new clothes, going out-out, they can't stand the happiness freedom brings.

Yes Kier Starmer is right wing, or at the very least he's certainly not a leftist. And controlling your borders (i.e determining who can come in and come out) absolutely is right wing. Nobody has any right to dictate where a person can and cannot go in the world, the very concept of restricting free movement is deeply authoritarian and is the root cause of nationalism in the world. Borders create division, they cause hate and ultimately they cause war. We should be working to end them.