Rjan:
muckles:
So his arrest, whether it is for a legitimate reason or not, has stopped him broadcasting, but has given him a far higher exposure and status to many, hence the pages about him on here, the vast coverage on social media platforms, petitions for his release, demonstrations. When he’s released his words will carry a greater significance for a far wider audience. Do you think that is a good thing?
Indeed, but what do you do? He can’t be legally untouchable no matter what he does, simply because he has a following. Most of his followers will say that anything that the state does to prevent him whipping up a pogrom of Muslim communities, is an outrageous unjustified attack on him.
I know his ■■■■■■■■ follows will hang on every word he says, but this arrest will help him him pick up new supporters.
Although judging from the comments in the video, he may have allienated some of his ■■■■■■■■ supporters when he interviewed a Transsexual journalist recently.
Rjan:
If he was being silenced for political views, or indeed for having simply told the truth on some or other matter, I’d be signing the petition myself. I actually felt a bit sorry for Nick Griffin that time when he appeared on Question Time - although at other points in the same program, I also remember cheering at the telly.
I’m pleased to hear that, it was basically the fundamental point I was trying to make, we must defend the right of those who stick their heads above the parapet and are a thorn in the side of the establishment even if we don’t agree with them.
I think Nick Griffin is a great example of why we should although these people a mainstream platform, that’s where they can be challenged and when their arguments are found lacking substance
Rjan:
The real problem with the far-right like always is the economic situation, the strains and insecurities that feed into a general sense of dissatisfaction and anger. Even in this story, as much as it is about Muslims, it is also clearly about powerful authorities that “don’t listen” and “cover up” and are otherwise unresponsive, malign, and corrupt, but it’s a peculiarity of the far-right that scapegoats form the pivot against which these dissatisfactions with power are expressed, rather than confronting power directly as the left do.
I think the extremes on both sides play identity politics, putting people into groups either to vilify but that’s dangerous, we are individual and often can fit into many groups, by some I would be put into a group of white middle aged working class male and considered to hold the views that certain extreme groups attach to that group of people, when I know that is far from the truth.
The same goes for other groups who are more regularly lumped together, we get the black community label, when they make up of many different type of people some will have more in common with me than those from some inner city estate, but they get stereotyped even though they maybe Doctors, lawyers, scientists, engineers, but they’re all lumped together to fit some political agenda.
sorry mate 