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Far-right rioters attack asylum seeker hotels in UK’s Rotherham, Tamworth
(www.aljazeera.com)
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Many of these people have existed since long before Brexit, but they now feel more emboldened to make public displays of themselves.
Normalisation of (ever further) right wing views in old media, extremism pipelines in social media, deepening division in culture generally, it’s all playing a part.
We need to start properly looking at the root causes of these attitudes if we want to make real progress. Both where they spread from and why they become accepted.
This is exactly what we should do, but instead we'll just call them violent thugs (which they are, of course) and dismiss all of this, bring in some kind of legislation that curbs what people can talk about on the internet (which will have zero effect) and then carry on as if nothing is wrong.