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Who has fanned the flames of fascism? Our politicians and newspapers
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Tuesday 15 August 2017 13.26 BST
They pour the petrol and then wonder why it burns.
Fascism is on the rise in the west, and it is emboldened, legitimised and
fuelled by “mainstream” politicians and newspapers. When we mourn a hero like Bernard Kenny – who
courageously tried to stop a fascist terrorist murdering Jo Cox – we have to
ask ourselves: who are those with power and influence who helped create the
conditions in which racists and fascists breed?“Cannot believe we’re seeing Nazi salutes in 21st century America,” tweets Nigel Farage about Charlottesville, dragging a can of petrol behind him. Perhaps next the chief executive of a fast-food company will express disbelief at levels of obesity; or a tobacco company will issue a press release spluttering about lung cancer deaths. Farage: the man who stood, arms outstretched, in front of a poster featuring dark-skinned refugees and the words “Breaking Point”. Farage: the man who expressed his “concern” at having Romanians move in next door, and made apocalyptic warnings of Romanians and Bulgarians flooding Britain. Farage: the man who cheered on the ascendancy of Donald Trump, a US president whose most fervent supporters are now triumphantly chanting “Heil Trump!” as they menace minorities and progressives.
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But Farage is the easy target. Across the western world a media and political
elite scapegoats migrants for the crimes of the powerful, portrays Muslims as a
homogeneous violent fifth column, and demonises opponents as unpatriotic
saboteurs and internal enemies. Trump’s initial refusal to attribute blame to
racists and fascists after a far-right terrorist attack – his subsequent
coerced denunciation is worthless, and was followed by his retweet of a leading
“alt-rightist” – underlines why those marching in Charlottesville see him as
their leader.But Trump’s campaign of bigotry, taken as a licence to hate by every racist and fascist, was no grubby disruption of a tolerant American consensus. “Obama answers to the Qur’an before the constitution,” declared Fox News contributors. The US constitution would be replaced with the Qur’an, they announced. Muslims would be banned from serving in high office, declared Herman Cain, a Republican candidate for the presidential nomination, a few years ago. “Sharia is a mortal threat to the survival of freedom in the United States,” was the pronouncement of Newt Gingrich, the Republican ex-speaker of the House of Representatives. Muslims were the only group Barack Obama offered “undying, unfailing support for”, declared fellow Republican Mike Huckabee.
Those goose-stepping marchers in Charlottesville, those racists and fascists, merely represent the undiluted hatred that festers in the US elite.
And it’s the same in the UK. “What will we do about The Muslim Problem?” scrawls Trevor Kavanagh this week in Britain’s biggest selling newspaper, the Sun. Here is an instructive lesson for those who deny the striking parallels between Islamophobia and the antisemitism of the 1920s and 1930s. “Muslims tell British: Go to hell” screeches the Daily Express. Mail Online continues to provide a platform for the far-right hate preacher Katie Hopkins, who once called migrants “cockroaches” and fantasised about using gunboats against them. Using this platform, she falsely smeared a Muslim family as extremists with al-Qaida. Newspapers openly promote an anti-Muslim hatred that directly parallels the flagrant and acceptable antisemitism of the 1920s and 1930s.
The courageous former Daily Star reporter Richard Peppiatt resigned over “anti-Muslim hate-mongering”. “The lies of a newspaper in London can get a bloke’s head caved in down an alley in Bradford,” he warned, and he’s right. On a daily basis, the British population is asked to blame every problem they have on foreigners, rather than those with power and wealth. “Migrants: How many more can we take?”, “Immigrants bring more crime”, “Britain must ban migrants”, “True toll of mass migration on UK life”, “The ‘swarm’ on our streets”: just the hateful headlines, let alone the bile-filled articles themselves, could fill endless volumes.
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And then the media report on the
frothing racist and fascists of Charlottesville – and Britain, for that matter
– like David Attenborough in a nature programme. Where did they come from? The
truth is their hatred and bile are legitimised and echoed by media moguls and
mainstream politicians alike. In this country, the rightwing Brexiteers
portrayed immigrants as a morass of potential criminals, terrorists, rapists
and murderers; in the aftermath of their repellent campaign, they portray
critics and progressives as enemies of the people and saboteurs who need to be crushed.Yes, racists and fascists are enabled and empowered by elites on both sides of the Atlantic; and yes, not just by their hatred, but by an economic order that generates needless misery and insecurity, which the bigoted can exploit.
They are the guilty men – the hatred, the chaos and the violence is on them. And as the racists and the fascists continue to march and unleash violent chaos, their enablers must be held accountable.
• Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist
COMMENT:
Before I narrate my own opinion on the issue, I would say a funny joke we Americans first keep our chikens in the safe custody of a fox and walk away happy. Later on return we don’t see the chickens and ask the fox where are the chicken . the fox replied the birds opened the faulty door and walked away. I request them to return but the chicken replied that not in this life time.
Now coming back to the opinion first we allow people of all strata to run for the Presidential race without any verification of the individual’s background as to whether he is good enough to participate in the election.
No we are nation of super power, thought all are eligible to participate, even the criminals.
So taking this serious omission in our system the enemy larking in the dark took the opportunity and divided the nation to avenge the imposing of sanction by the West and EU countries on it.
Having said this, we all know how very cordially
and lovingly nature the germ of extinction made healthy and fit to kill our comrades in peaceful procession.
While the leader of these fatal germs blame the innocents protestors of the killing and not the white supremacists or some people call them in different names.
As these criminal killers are none but politically motivated killers and belong to the regime in power needs to be investigated to pin point under whose leadership they dared to committee such heinous crimes..
They change their color as the situation fits for them to hide their real IDs and blame others by changing their real IDs.
Like white supremacists becomes Neo-Nazi, fascists and so on. The cover up is very cunningly done for the support by the President of the country blaming the peaceful protestors, the print and electronic media.
In one way we are to blame because we have placed him to the chair of power on such a powerful seat that he with the help of some Zionist lawmakers of US congress is now able to damage the country irreparably by Russian instructions. When he started the speeches of hate and racism it was then that this ruffian should have been fired from participating in the election. But no the responsible people all supported of the Russian plan and did treachery with the nation..
It is true that hate was there but was fanned by the President from the early days of his campaigning.
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