Rise of the far right

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I am watching election news with increasing fear. The deranged Trump conspiracy theorists supporters in the US, overturning Roe Vs Wade, the far right gaining traction in Europe, some of the rhetoric here. Hell, the fact the Rwanda idea was not immediately dismissed as insane.

Then outside the West there’s the threat to women’s lives in Afghanistan, Iran…

How does this end? How does it reverse? Other than a WW2 scenario, how do we secure the safety and freedom of women and girls?

I want to be optimistic, but I’m struggling to see a route to progress. I’m hoping the much more knowledgeable souls of FWR will know.

Are you trying to suggest the P in BNP stands for Party?

The Taliban have received a lot of support from the far right. Capitol Hill invaders posted pictures of themselves alongside Taliban fighters. They admire their anti liberal, anti LGBTQ and anti women stance.

The Taliban aren't anti-LGBTQ.

They are anti gay and Lesbian and enthusiastically pro-trans. Transing away the gay is one of their archetypical policies.

Of course it is. It's part of Shariah law for men to dress up as women.

Doesn't it? I always thought BNP stood for British National Party😳

Yes, BNP stands for the British National Party.

No it isn't. The Taliban do not recognise trans as being anything other than gay. They aren't transing anyone.

Yes it was sarcasm.

Can you imagine the Taliban opening gender clinics. Good lord.

I can imagine them opening gender clinics then throwing people off them.

Reform and Farage definitely are far right, and it's pretty much accepted, apart from by the right wingers and their members themselves, of course.

What happened to people's sanity?

Is this an actual mind virus or what?

Yup.

I feel like the rise in support of figures like Andrew Tate is partly a reaction to the left. Fighting fire with fire when we didn't really need to set things alight.

We need more female lawmakers

Statistically, female judges give harsher sentences to women than male judges do (well, certainly in the US) so this may not look like what many people assume.

But the woke are always lefties.

And it's not Boris/Rishi that are pushing gender ideology. 🤣 It's nothing to do with political parties.

Well, aside from Labour siding with the trans loons. But my point is that TRAs would do their thing under any government.

Really? so Boris reducing GRC fees from £140 to £5 and telling the NHS to open up more Gender clinics, nor making any changes at all to the GRA or Eq act's..... isn't pushing Gender ideology?

Andrew Tate has come to prominence during 14 years of the Tories & where did he chose to base himself? in a centre right governed country, Romania, where female rights rarely matter.

Yes lefties probably are more "woke" they want better NHS, schooling, less shit in Rivers, care more about the suffering of others and want to improve the environment.
You take the piss out of Woke, yet moan about the rise of Tate, its pity he isn't a little more woke hey!

The Right on the other hand want none of these things, its all about the money, hence Sunak offers nothing more than Tax cuts.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/its-a-mistake-to-call-reform-uk-far-right/

This was an interesting read. I wonder if anyone has written something similar from a left wing perspective.

"calling, for instance, for the prevailing political system to be overturned, let alone overthrown"

Plenty of lefties I've known over the years say that the House of Lords should be abolished and there are political parties that support this position. 🤔

"Their critique of those regimes is sometimes explicit, even going so far as to countenance or at least tolerate violence"

We've seen A LOT of violence, aggression and disruption by all kinds of left wing groups in recent years, with all kinds of justification for hurting people and businesses. And left wing parties turn a blind eye or don't openly condemn these kinds of behaviours, with some members actively encouraging or approving of these behaviours.

The populist radical right,....... may (often with justification) be associated with nationalism and nativism that sometimes shades into outright xenophobia, believing that the needs and the interests of citizens should take priority over non-citizens – especially but not exclusively when it comes to, say, welfare or housing.

Hang on, believing the needs and interests of citizens should take priority over non-citizens especially in things like welfare or housing is classed as nationalism ... nativism ... and even outright xenophobia ??? Have I got that right? 😂😂😂

The most important purpose of ANY nation is to prioritise its citizens over non-citizens. In which country anywhere in the world would they be expected to pander to outsiders over their own people?!? Honestly, some of you white people are utterly deranged. So much self-loathing. Try this rhetoric in any country run by brown or black people and they will (rightly) tell you to go fuck yourselves. Have some self-respect!

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It's well documented that there's gender bias in courts worldwide. Women are often judged more harshly than men, especially in cases where they don't conform to gender stereotypes.

Politics has a certain inherent balance to it. The rise of the left will always be met with the rise of the right, and vice-versa. That's why it's so incredibly important for both sides to concentrate their effort on moving themselves as close to the centre ground as they can manage.

What ISIS have been doing to the LGBTQ community is dangling them by their feet from high buildings then dropping them so they land on their heads when they fall. Then people stone them as they land on the ground. I believe the Taliban sentence them to being crushed by walls.

I have no idea what's wrong with these people but what I do know is that the Taliban are admired by the far right who see them as freedom fighters who overthrew an imperial power. There is even talk among them of 'white sharia' as they like how the Taliban treat women. There's also 'white jihad'.

Andrew Tate isn't in reaction to the left, he's in reaction to women being treated as human beings with rights over their bodies and sexuality.

Iran is an Islamist country where being gay is punishable by death and gay men are "encouraged" to have "gender reassignment" surgery.

I think that's what pp are referring to.

qz.com/889548/everyone-treated-me-like-a-saint-in-iran-theres-only-one-way-to-survive-as-a-transgender-person