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What’s fuelling the rise of the far right? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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It’s been reported that in the German elections, a far right party has made ‘significant gains’.

In the UK (at least before the scandals) Reform UK seems to have had a significant boost and has even surpassed the right-wing Conservative Party in some polls/predictions.

Even France, one or two years ago, was threatened with a far-right government due to the French far right party gaining a lot of support.

It feels like in the last few years, the far-right has exceeded itself and had a surge in popularity. Is this the case? And if so, wtf is fuelling it?

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[+] -6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Wut? Have you missed the associations between some wings of the left and anti-semitism?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

    Do you count being anti-israel as being antisemitic?

    Outside of that conflation, I just haven't seen that much of it from the left, not in an age where we litterally have Nazi parties marching and trying to reform globally.

    So I think PERSPECTIVE and SCALE are required for judging "right vs left" or "both sides" style arguments. There's way more right wing nazi stuff than "leftwing antisemitism".

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago

    No I don't. And sure, I've seen more hate speech from right wingers, but I don't think this comment chain originated with someone saying "left and right wingers emit comparable amounts of hate speech against minorities".

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