[Twosugars]

Far-right activists are exploiting community tensions by swooping into towns and cities and distorting the truth in an effort to turn residents against minorities, particularly Muslims, the government’s chief adviser on extremism has found.

Extremists were stirring up white populations who would not normally support the far right and deepening social division, Sara Khan, who leads the Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE), said in her first major report.

Figures such as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who is more commonly known as Tommy Robinson, Anne Marie Waters, the leader of the For Britain party, and Jayda Fransen, a former deputy leader of the fascist group Britain First, were singled out in the report for spreading anti-minority and anti-Muslim agendas.

Khan visited 20 towns and cities and sifted through 3,000 responses to a call for evidence to produce her first major report, published on Monday, titled Challenging Hateful Extremism. She concluded in her report that the government’s response to extremism was “inadequate”, “unfocused” and urgently needed a complete overhaul.
More at https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ns-report-says

[Alf]

Labour members knock on my door and distort the truth to me so that I'll vote for them. I don't go running to the Guardian about it though. I just politely tell them to piss off.

[Tom4784]

I see it all the time, you only have to look on Facebook at all the right wing propaganda that always starts with lies like '_____ has had this picture/quote/whatever deleted 5 times! Reblog and share!' or '_____ doesn't want this picture on the internet! Share it to all your friends! You're a traitor if you don't!' etc.

It's all about presenting a victim narrative to manipulate the gullible into believing what they have to say.

[Twosugars]

They always thrive on discord and tensions. And bring misery and hate.

[Liberty4eva]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

Far-right activists are exploiting community tensions by swooping into towns and cities and distorting the truth in an effort to turn residents against minorities, particularly Muslims, the government’s chief adviser on extremism has found.

Extremists were stirring up white populations who would not normally support the far right and deepening social division, Sara Khan, who leads the Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE), said in her first major report.

Figures such as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who is more commonly known as Tommy Robinson, Anne Marie Waters, the leader of the For Britain party, and Jayda Fransen, a former deputy leader of the fascist group Britain First, were singled out in the report for spreading anti-minority and anti-Muslim agendas.

Khan visited 20 towns and cities and sifted through 3,000 responses to a call for evidence to produce her first major report, published on Monday, titled Challenging Hateful Extremism. She concluded in her report that the government’s response to extremism was “inadequate”, “unfocused” and urgently needed a complete overhaul.
More at https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ns-report-says

Whenever you have two communities with radically different cultures living in one country with the same laws, there is going to be tension. You don't need far right people to create it. It will be there.

[Kizzy]

We have had many cultures living side by side for generations...why now? Why specifically since 2016 has there been a spike in right wing violence?

[Withano]

Originally Posted by Liberty4eva

Whenever you have two communities with radically different cultures living in one country with the same laws, there is going to be tension.

So what you’re saying is, we should deport horrid right wing people out the country? Controversial but kinda here for it.

[Liberty4eva]

Originally Posted by Withano

So what you’re saying is, we should deport horrid right wing people out the country? Controversial but kinda here for it.

No, you should deport the politicians who created this problem in the first place. Or at least send the Muslims to the affluent neighborhoods of those politicians so they can reap the benefits(?) of multi-culturalism first hand. Don't begrudge the Muslims who are only adhering to the culture their ancestors passed onto them.

[Ammi]

...this is not about culture../...multiculturalism...the report is saying that hate-fuelled protests aimed against the Muslim community are taking place when 85% of those convicted of sexual offences in 2018 in the Northumbria police force area were white../non Muslims...the hate being relayed and fuelled by some is a falsehood of criminal element representing a culture...that would mean that for the safety of that area...85% of white people should be part of that protest narrative as well...if those protesters were genuine in their ‘caring for their women and children..’....

[parmnion]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...this is not about culture../...multiculturalism...the report is saying that hate-fuelled protests aimed against the Muslim community are taking place when 85% of those convicted of sexual offences in 2018 in the Northumbria police force area were white../non Muslims...the hate being relayed and fuelled by some is a falsehood of criminal element representing a culture...that would mean that for the safety of that area...85% of white people should be part of that protest narrative as well...if those protesters were genuine in their ‘caring for their women and children..’....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-49962434

Too many labour MPs up that way Ammi.

[bitontheslide]

all our mp's are exploiting tensions