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Originally Posted by Dezzy
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We live in a world where Right Wing extremists and incels are often planning attacks on politicians and, more often then not, it's female politicians in particular that are targetted.
Leaders must be smart in the terminology they use, when you look at recent shootings in the US, the common link between most of them is that most of these shooters idolised and adhered to Trump's 'philosophies' and the language he uses resonated with them. When a person in power calls people traitors for not doing what he wants them to, when he uses terms of war to make out that Brexit is a battle situation and not an parliamentary procedure, he is inspiring the crazies to take action.
When you downplay the emotions and fears of these MPs who have lost a colleague and know all too well how easily it could have been them, you're not defending the right wing, you're defending the extremists, you're downplaying what happened to Jo Cox and you're downplaying the very real threat of Right Wing terrorism because you see 'Right Wing' and you automatically jump to it's defense out of nothing more than tribalism.
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Absolutely this post is one of your very best.
It's sad posts like it are needed.
Johnson and others fuel some of the worst divisions there are in the Country.
The PMs repeated use of inflammatory terms all through is just playing to the truly awful hard-line extremists in the Con party.
Particularly the Con membership.
Many Conservative voters will not agree or support his use of wording.
After the murder, brutal murder of an unarmed woman doing her job.
I found Con voters devastated by it wanting to support Labour activists and Labour voters.
That murder should always be in the minds of anyone making public speeches.
To moderate terminology used, to try to help ensure it never happens again.
Sadly I fear it will and with this PM who, when someone points out the possible dangers MPs face.
Dismisses the points raised using a statement, he'd never heard such humbug.
Shocking.
All Parties have MPs who are getting some awful threats made against them and their families and even their children.
The disgraceful man who targeted Rees-Moggs children publicly.
Absolutely disgraceful.
It is the case, most threats are from faceless individuals hiding behind anonymity.
Some are happy to be really acidic verbally with idle threats.
Then there is the extremists, who are so unstable they will act on the threats they make.
Or worse, who just act without warning.
Such as with Jo Cox.
Terminology being used to fuel the already tense divisions that exist is of a danger level that should be unacceptable.
Johnson and Farage are the main instigators of fuelling divisions.
Then we get the real extremists who act, thinking a licence has been given them to.
Johnson was a disgrace as a PM in the exchanges yesterday.
Sadly, MPs are rarely seen in a good light but some have never been more possibly in danger of harm or death even, as they are now.
Any major figures, not just in politics, speaking publicly need to be made to set out to not incite division and hate but to work to eradicate it.
