Extremist groups are presenting themselves as legitimate entities in a way that threatens to reshape Australian politics
Tag: Far Right
The problem with the Liberals and Nationals lining up with ‘crackpots and cranks’ is it’s not a cost-free exercise
“Racism And Sexism Come Together”: Inside Australia’s Far Right
“It’s not only sexism and it’s not only racism, and it’s not only Islamophobia, but it’s an amplification of all those phenomena.”
It’s not even clear that there are so many migrants. According to United Nations data, between January 2014 and March 2018, roughly 1.8 million people crossed the Mediterranean Sea to try and enter the EU. This number — which has driven Murray to such angst that he has pronounced the “death of Europe” — amounts to less than one-third of 1 percent of the EU’s population. In the meantime, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and Pakistan continue to quietly host millions of refugees, many of whom were driven from their homes as a result of wars of aggression supported by Murray, whose past books include forthright tomes like “Neoconservatism: Why We Need It.”
via Why Douglas Murray’s “Strange Death of Europe” Is a Far-Right Hit — And Wrong
At a meeting in Vienna, Europe’s major far-right parties rant against EU, “radical Islam” and asylum immigrants.
Source: Europe far-right leaders join forces against Islam, EU – News from Al Jazeera
The dream of building the United States of Europe will become an obsolete memory of the past.
Source: Welcome to the world of Europe’s far-right – Al Jazeera English
Berry’s legacy
In Britain Richard Berry continued to preach his uncompromising theory of “rotten heredity”. In 1934 he would argue that to eliminate mental deficiency would require the sterilisation of twenty-five per cent of the population. At the same time he also advocated the “kindly euthanasia” of the unfit.
But his legacy in Australia continued, with the Eugenics Society of Victoria operating until 1961.
Although Melbourne may wish to forget its dark past,
