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UK police deploying 6,000 specially trained officers this week as more far-right disorder expected (apnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Is there a good reason why journalists keep calling this "far-right disorder" instead of what it really is: Fascist Terrorism?

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[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

I'd think of it this way:

It will hopefully help cement for way more people that the right wing is horrid and needs to be stopped. Terrorists and Fascists can be othered by more moderate right wingers, Far-Right is harder as it has Right right in there and hopefully makes them more and more uncomfortable and ashamed until they at least feel like not voting anymore, if not flip to the left entirely