Discussing issues about our society in the online world is almost always a contentious affair, but lately it seems that people are particularly unwilling to engage in conversation and debate.
One of the terms that is getting thrown around liberally is the “the Far Right”. Any point of disagreement once this magic spell has been pronounced can be safely disregarded and the conversation considered to be “won” by the person deploying it.
The problem is that, in reality, nothing has been ‘won’ and more importantly the issue at hand has not been discussed or evaluated on any meaningful level.
The only solution is more engagement and involvement, it is what keeps our society free and functioning.
bleatmop
Mystro
Dead Wild Roses 
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June 17, 2023 at 2:16 pm
lungta mtn
You can not discuss with anyone when they are convinced they are 100% correct, the peak of creation and earths’ un-ascended masters. Few are those who thru necessity have openly and honestly re-evaluated their beliefs. Things such as addiction or abuse instill certainties that do not match reality and the ability to change these during recoveries show that changing your thinking is not the devastating assault on your being that those whose ideas have hardened since childhood believe.
But for most (and this includes several bloggers ) a added uncomfortable fact is hate speech. Any deviation to their understood script is an assault on their core integrity.
The phrase full of themselves is very accurate. Not even a master can add to an overflowing cup.
For me then “far right” is code for “do not waste your time engaging” because as noted elsewhere “they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience”
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June 17, 2023 at 2:44 pm
lungta mtn
PostScript
Yes … “far right” and “far left’ are totally interchangeable.
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June 17, 2023 at 11:01 pm
Infidel753
I have noticed this in reporting about Europe for over a decade. Any person or party critical of immigration, of Islam, or of the undemocratic European Union’s domination over elected national governments, has been classed as “far right”, lumping together everyone from actual neo-Nazis to people like the Dutch gay Marxist Pim Fortuyn under that label. This creates a lot of confusion since it obscures important differences among groups, some of which would actually be left-wing by any normal standard. It has been very effective as a thought-terminating cliché, however.
Aside from explicitly pointing out the absurdity of this tactic, the most effective way to fight back against it is simply to refuse to be silenced by it. Eventually the absurdity becomes impossible to ignore. The Bud Light boycott, for example, has been much to successful to be the work of an insignificant fringe of society.
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