> a similar dynamic now appears to be at work on the right: the reluctance of mainstream conservatives to challenge far-right identitarian rhetoric risks allowing it to fester unchecked. for instance, claims that a multiethnic society is inherently destructive are not only factually incorrect, but also alienate people of goodwill who support cultural integration rather than segregation. a guy literally just smashed his car into a christmas market, a man who was the most perfectly integrated wog ever...right up until he pressed the accelerator  > still, we shouldnt be complacent about this ideology spreading beyond attention-seekers on social media. socioeconomic conditions in the uk and the west more broadly have created a fertile environment for extremism to flourish. long-term economic stagnation, combined with the collapse of traditional sources of community and meaning, have left many people feeling hopeless and looking for new narratives of belonging and identity. and some, especially some young people it seems, are looking to the identitarian extremes for answers. i wonder if any of those things are connected to the literal 10s of millions of wogs that are milling about the place? > needless to say, the challenges we face as a society will not be solved by incel-adjacent anons on x, or blue-haired drones on bluesky. we must protect free speech while calling out the new racial identity politics of both the left and the right. the path forward lies in rejecting both the reactionary dogmatism of the progressives and the nihilism of the white identitarians. kys
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