Well, it’s official, BFD folk: we’re all fascists.
This particular pearl of wisdom comes, surprise, surprise, courtesy of the left-media and its pet academics. Putting on their shiny, foil un-thinking-caps, the great minds of the left have come to the utterly unsurprising conclusion that anyone who publishes stuff they don’t like is fuelling the fires of “right-wing extremism”.
[The Australian], along with others in the News Corp stable, purportedly is being used as a tool to recruit right-wing extremists.
This startling revelation comes courtesy of The Saturday Paper, a weekly chronicle of the latest conspiratorial delusions enveloping what passes for the intellectual left […]The Saturday Paper’s page one headline, “Murdoch media fuels far-right recruitment”[…]revealed a team of Victorian academics had proved beyond doubt news and commentary in publications such as this “emboldens” extremists seeking “permission” to commit acts of unspeakable depravity[…]
The evidence being somewhat thin, Morton was obliged to embellish his account with a report from the US alleging the perpetrator of the recent mass shooting in El Paso had lifted phrases from Donald Trump’s Facebook page to compose a rambling manifesto.
The word “invasion,” for example, is common to both texts, along with the words “the”, “but” and “and”, presumably.
I’ll bet the El Paso shooter also drank water, just like Trump drinks water. Case closed.
Conspiracy theories about the rise of the right are becoming ever more fanciful and the language in which they are expressed ever less temperate. Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director no less, attacked Trump in a TV interview last week for announcing flags would be flown at half-mast until August 8 as a mark of respect for the victims of two mass shootings.
“That’s 8/8,” said Figliuzzi. “The numbers eight and eight are very significant in the neo-Nazi and white supremacist movement … The letter H is the eighth letter in the alphabet. So, for them it stands for ‘Heil Hitler’.”
But wait! BFD readers will also no doubt recall that August 8 was the day David Lange resigned as NZ prime minister. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Geoffrey Palmer’s goose-stepping into the Beehive was a dead give-away.
The exaggerated rhetoric betrays a sense of despair on the progressive left that its message is not cutting through. The gospel of wokeness remains unappealing to most of the voting population, whose concerns are of a more practical kind.
The haste to adopt conspiracy theories to explain the right’s success is a sign of a strengthening paranoia…
theaustralian.com.au/commentary/quiet-people-turn-a-deaf-ear-to-woke-invective/news-story/b12007a44383c3550ebb6dfb1aa74db3
These are the sort of folk after all, who, in complete defiance of the basics of political science, call libertarians “fascists” (exactly how a political philosophy committed to minimising the role of the state is in any way similar to one which champions an all-powerful state is a mystery known only to whatever passes for the thought-processes of leftist academics).
But there is perhaps no surer sign that they are slowly realising that the Long March through the Institutions is faltering than the left’s continuing descent into swivel-eyed conspiracy theories.
Anyway, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and iron the pointy hats for the kids’ little league match tomorrow. A fascist’s work is never done…