Italy- Giorgia Meloni
Argentina- Javier Milei
Hungary- Viktor Orbán
Israel- Benjamin Netanyahu
Russia- Vladmir Putin
France- Marine Le Pen
US- Donald Trump
UK- Nigel Farage…
Why Is The World Turning More Right-Wing?
21st-century fascism is triggering a global ‘war on woke’, with far-right parties thriving on fear, resentment, and hatred in order to secure their supremacy and silence minorities.
Rather than focusing on the actual cause of worsening economic conditions, high crime rates, and widespread unemployment in the West, corrupt politicians, knowing that controversy sells, choose to make scapegoats out of the most vulnerable members of society instead…
Instead of taking to the stand in Parliament to demand better policies that get to the root of the issue, they sell made-up stories to tabloids, pinning the blame on people who they know probably don’t have the ability to fight back…
‘Migrants are taking over. They’re coming for your jobs’, they tell us.
A textbook example of the great replacement theory, we are fed the myth that our national identity is ‘under threat’ due to increasing immigrant populations.
The solution?
We should be ‘segregating people according to their ethnicity’, the far right tells us…
Why do they tell such blatant lies?
Necessary for the recruitment of previously apolitical working-class individuals = Racism disguised as patriotism.
In Enoch Powell’s notorious, ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, given in 1968, the Conservative MP’s central allegation was that immigration from the Commonwealth was making existing Britons ‘strangers in their own country’ and that, ‘in 15 or 20 years, the Black man will have the whip hand over the white man.’
(It’s been 56 years and we’re still waiting for that moral panic to come to fruition)…
And it’s not just the marginalised themselves who are being targeted, either, but their supporters too…
The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, an organisation that monitors the security of female human rights defenders, found that one in four activists received death threats for their work in 2023, with 58% of those threats being made by their own governments. Why? To create an atmosphere of fear, making scapegoats out of those who demand freedom, (as though caring about others and wanting world peace is something to be mocked… ‘Political correctness gone mad)’, while making heroes out of those who incite hate. They do this to maintain the existing social order, further restrict activism, and discourage people from standing up for their rights.
How can a resistance movement against social liberation be called anything other than a hate campaign?
Sometimes referred to as ‘Cultural Marxism’, a ‘conspiratorial attempt to wreck culture and morality’, the far right is quick to discredit progressive politics because making progress is what they fear. They want us all to remain in our color-coded, neatly organised (repressive) boxes…
Why are we going backward?
Why is the censoring of anything that diverts away from the narrowminded view of what constitutes the ‘right’, ‘moral’ way to live still happening all around the world?
When anything that diverts away from the norm is perceived to be a ‘threat’ to society, homophobic and transphobic moral panics are also used by the far-right, alongside their scapegoating of migrants.
Society has been overtaken by an anti-family ‘gender ideology.’
Reframing Feminism as Misandry.
Reframing homosexuality as pedophilia.
Reverting back to section 28…
Despite homosexuality being legalised in England in 1967, in 1988, the UK took a massive step back when, under Margaret Thatcher’s leadership, section 28 was introduced. This saw the promotion and publishing of material surrounding homosexuality being banned in schools.
Schools shall not promote the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality as a ‘pretend’ family relationship.
Section 28 remained in place in the UK until 2003.
While we are no longer governed by such laws in the UK today, as we have seen in the case of Roe V Wade, progress can be reversed at any time.
Progress is being reversed, all the time…
In 2022, the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law was introduced in Florida, much like section 28, serving to ban discussions of sexual orientation and/or gender identity in schools.
As this Guardian article reports, ‘Lawyers have already told teachers in Orange county public schools that they should be careful not to wear rainbows; avoid mentioning same-sex spouses or displaying any pictures of them; and ensure they remove safe-space stickers from their classroom doors.’
And the same thing happened in Hungary this year when the Hungarian parliament voted to eliminate from schools all teaching related to homosexuality and gender change…
Much like section 28 of the UK, and the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law of Florida, Hungary associates LGBT+ rights and education with paedophilia, arguing that the traditional family is under attack, that children in the classroom are being indoctrinated to become homosexuals, and that ‘gender’ is a dangerous ideology threatening to destroy families, local cultures, civilisation, and even man* himself…
*(When right-wing politics is all about upholding the current system(s) of oppression, the patriarchy, people fear that men will lose their dominant positions in society if we make gender and sexuality an open discussion).
Resistant to all questioning of norms, such laws are in place to discredit all those who live outside the traditional family, arguing that our right to exist is conditional.
(It’s not).
We have a right to exist because we exist, it is not something that we have to earn…
As American Philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler argues, anti-gender activities are contributing to ‘democratic erosion’, because the truth is that:
No one of us can be free until everyone is free
– Maya Angelou
And so, in the face of oppression, we must stand up for what we know is right, even if it means standing alone.
And, to all the leftists of the world…
Be everything they fear that you are, and never let their hate overshadow your hope.
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