I wonder what the Freedom of speech supporters who’ve stood on public platforms for years shouting divisive diatribes and railed against the law curtailing their right to shout divisive diatribes from public platforms will make of this. Those of us who really do support Freedom of speech (in UK Freedom of expression) genuinely are appalled.
Yesterday we saw how American alt-right offshoot ‘Turning Point UK’ was attempting to influence British education by encouraging intimidation of teachers. Today we learn that our government is doing the same. That’s hardly surprising given the links our government has with alt-right gurus such as Steve Bannon, arguably the real power behind Cummings’s Prime Ministerial throne. Let’s face it – it’s not Boris in charge, is it?
In 1933 the German Nazi party began a campaign of removing all academics and staff from schools, universities and cultural, historical institutions who weren’t ‘on message’.
Yesterday the news broke that Andrew Sabisky, Eugenicist, racist and all round dismisser of other peoples’ worth had been employed as advisor to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson (who definitely is not racist). Today we hear that Mr. Sabisky has resigned as advisor to the (definitely not racist) Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
Several of my lefty colleagues are proclaiming a victory this morning over the Johnson regime (that still really definitely isn’t racist) because public outrage has forced the nasty little eugenicist to go. But they’ve missed the point. Sabisky has already served his purpose and the message from this (absolutely not racist) government will have been received loud and clear.
Sabisky’s appointment is just the latest in a long line of reassurances from Prime Minister Johnson (who really doesn’t have a racist bone in his body) to the UK’s racist population that Number 10 is on their side. From comments about Picaninnies, Watermelon smiles and letter boxes to the appointment of shady figures like Dominic Cummings (or did Cummings appoint Johnson?) and shady links to alt right figureheads like Steve Bannon the (undeniably NOT racist) Mr. Johnson has being spreading out the red carpet for British race hate groups for years.
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves after delivering a statement at Downing Street following winning the general election, in London, Britain, December 13, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville – RC2FUD9K5160
So the very fact that Mr. Sabisky was employed at all by (the completely, absolutely and totally not racist) Mr. Johnson far outweighs the fact that he has been forced to resign by “lefty, pinko snowflakes that hate freedom speek and can’t see the true that British peeple is best and always is white – not like them forriners”.
This isn’t any sort of victory for the left – this is evidence that we’ve been played – yet again. Not only has the PM doubled-down on his friendship with racists (who aren’t at all like Boris himself) by appointing Sabisky in the first place but he’s also managed to divide the country even further as part of his (not at all obvious or racist) ‘divide and rule’ strategy.
But in the interests of balance, just in case you think I’m being too hard on the (not racist) Prime minister, here’s a short Youtube clip of Boris being not racist…
Is it fair to compare modern anti-Muslim propagandists to Hitler’s arch rabble-rouser and Jew-baiter?
Julius Streicher was a Nazi party member from the beginning in post WW1 Germany. He was also the editor of Der Sturmer, an anti-semitic propaganda tabloid and a Gaoliter (a regional official) once Hitler came to power. Hated for his vindictiveness and uncouth manner even by his fellow Nazis, Streicher dedicated his publication to disseminating libellous slurs towards Jews, trade unionists, socialists and all who opposed Nazi ideology.
He incited hatred and violence and was instrumental in fuelling the intense prejudice against innocent Germans that contributed to the horrors of Kristalnacht and the atrocities of the holocaust. Streicher was hanged at Nuremberg for his crimes against humanity in 1946.
Katie Hopkins is renowned for using her social media presence, her newspaper column and her radio and television appearances to spread lies, hatred, exaggeration and generalisations in an effort to whip up hatred against Muslims and immigrants just as Streicher did against the Jews. Across the Atlantic, Steve Bannon used these same techniques and prejudices so effectively he used the alt-right Breitbart online media machine to get a 70 year old vindictive, narcissistic, overgrown child elected into the Whitehouse.
Just as Streicher used the media of his day to commit and incite crimes against humanity so Hopkins and Bannon do the same with the media opportunities of today. Less prolifically but equally dangerous are the likes of Boris Johnson who cynically jumps on the discriminatory bandwagon because he thinks it will get him a few votes. British newspapers have jumped on the same bandwagon, routinely publishing headlines and articles that would have been unthinkable in this country just a few years ago.
The similarities between Streicher’s Der Sturmer and some of our domestic tabloids are both striking and terrifying. Is it any wonder then that hatred against foreigners and Muslims is rising across the West? Hate crimes are still rising here in UK, proving that the idea of a ‘post-referendum’ spike was false. There is a sustained hostility toward immigrants and Muslims nurtured by regular additions of anti-Islamic, and xenophobic slanders from these modern day Streichers.
I wonder how much more Western societies can take before we have to start prosecuting them for incitement to violence. Freedom of speech is one thing but deceptive incitement to commit violence has never been protected by free speech in any modern civilisation, not even America, a nation that probably enjoys the laxest free speech laws of all.
I say we need to stop winking at these hate-mongers and start prosecuting them. After all, it’s not as though we don’t know where this sort of publicised hatred leads, is it?
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