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 Jorg Haider to Geert Wilders :  Far-right Normalised in Europe https://www.newsclick.in/jorg-haider-geert-wilders-far-right-normalised-europe
18/12/2023 subhash gatade A new Europe is emerging, ready to give space to ethnonationalism and exclusivist agendas.Studies tell us that “in several countries, support for the far right is growing fastest among younger voters,” The Guardian pointed out.

But the youth has not suddenly become exclusivist. There is a growing housing and healthcare crisis, and life is increasingly precarious without regular jobs. Slogans that promise to ‘make the country great again’ are bound to appeal to younger voters.

An editorial in The Hindu newspaper warns that rising ethnonationalism is a wake-up call for the establishment parties in the West. “Establishment parties should have a clear economic agenda and political vision to arrest the rising tide of far-right politics, which echoes Europe’s dangerous and not-so-distant past,”

Writing in The Wire, Aurelien Mondon, a senior lecturer at the University of Bath, notes, “We cannot pretend to stand against the far right while referring to its politics as ‘legitimate concerns’. We must stand unequivocally by and be in service of every one of the communities at the sharp end of oppression.”

This applies in South Asia, too, where parties have repeatedly demonstrated political naiveté by aligning with retrograde forces, such as under the name of “fighting corruption”. It has, ultimately, facilitated the ascent of the right to the echelons of power.

https://thewire.in/world/look-to-the-mainstream-to-explain-the-rise-of-the-far-right

in the media or academia, populism is generally used carelessly as a key defining feature. Using “populist” instead of more accurate but also stigmatising terms such as “far-right” or “racist” acts as a key legitimiser of far-right politics. It lends these parties and politicians a veneer of democratic support through the etymological link to the people and erases their deeply elitist nature – what my co-author Aaron Winter and I have termed “reactionary democracy”.

the mainstreaming process has involved platforming, hyping and legitimising far-right ideas while seemingly opposing them and denying responsibility in the process...We too often view the far right as an outsider – something separate from ourselves and distinct from our norms and mainstream. This ignores deeply entrenched structural inequalities and forms of oppression core to our societies. ..

YouTuber beware! Broadcast bill is coming! Ravish Kumar Official Dec 24, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ahixFQeoE

Is the government preparing to nab YouTubers also? After strangling the media, you have seen the bleating of the Godi media. In response to these, some journalists and some creators on YouTube are commenting on the government and today's situation in various ways. All of them are being dressed in a pajama named Broadcaster. Not only journalists, comedians will also come under its purview. Even those people who make and post videos on road and train conditions while walking. Even those who while cooking pulses in cookery shows tell that pulses and oil are becoming expensive. This bill covers every person who is making any kind of comment on the internet. Platforms like YouTube are the place of independent voice in today's time, if these also disappear then what will you be left with? Why is the Broadcast Bill being called a threat to YouTubers? The conversation about this cannot and should not be small. We have spoken to journalist Meghnad to understand this bill. He has read this bill closely and has presented its dangers to you in simple language. The government is seeking suggestions and comments from the public on this bill till January 15.

Hate slurs ensure a discriminated citizen: India’s Muslim voices speak up, 2023 A glimpse at daily life for Muslims living in India? https://cjp.org.in/hate-slurs-ensure-a-discriminated-citizen-indias-muslim-voices-speak-up-2023/ 19, Dec 2023 the Hindutva brigade executes both a social and political project of ensuring the permanent construct of an antagonist picture of Muslims. Be it as a violent race, intolerant, aggressive, traitorous or unclean, the doppelganger to these prototypes is the meat consuming, lascivious, male Muslim who is responsible for the insidious rise in Muslim population. Using repetitive propagandist methods of stigma, these forces have fine-tuned this hate-letting to minute detail, harnessing technology and even music for far reach.

In India itself latest reports indicate an alarming 500% surge in cases filed under India’s hate-speech law over the past seven years, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). There were 255 incidents of hate speech documented at gatherings that targeted Muslims in the first half of 2023 alone. The report further exposes that a staggering 80% of hate speech events transpired in states governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Several incidents, including those involving top official leaders such as Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, have been recorded over the year.

Poet and writer, Hussain Haidry reflects on how firmly entrenched and pervasive propaganda and otherisation of Muslims has become.

“What has happened is that the otherisation is pretty much complete. Now it is very difficult to not be spotted as a Muslim under any circumstance, in any room. Today, I couldn’t pass off (without my identity). Identity is obvious.

“Secondly, while there may not be physical violence, because my class capital and social capital afford me some protections. But, this also exposes you (me) to online attacks, which can easily translate into real life by harming your career and lead to social and economic ostracisation. There may not be an imminent physical threat as such, but online attacks can also affect and attack my career since my livelihood is dependent on that.