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UK: The Telegraph Facebook Page (8)

On asylum seekers, Muslims, ‘Islam’ Tim Ford Well they wont be laughing when they [asylum seekers] cant leave hotel. Ned Ma Tim Ford  so it is not a hotel if you cannot leave it Tim Ford Ned Ma  well they shouldn't fkn be there then scrounging c*nts need to fk off back to where they came from taking fkn British taxpayers money best thing they can do is leave the country Ned Ma Tim Ford  Well, I fundamentally disagree with you because of your language, the myths you have, the bigotry, etc. and the denial. I think by now you are already typing an insult to be hurled at me. Your comment is a nationalistic and a xenophobic one and has nothing to do with how migration in general is treated in a scientific and rational way. So, your extensive skills of using nice vocabulary will be admired by others here. I though see it as an immature language coming from an adult person living in a country with so much academic knowledge, history of migration, wars, empire, quality universiti...
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Disaster Nationalism. Class: Not the Economy, Stupid

By Richard Seymour On the one hand, it is obvious that the recent rise of right-wing nationalism has something to do with the economy, and specifically with the global financial crash of 2008. The electoral record in Europe between 1870 and 2014 suggests that voters generally respond to financial crises by moving to the right, with the far right gaining the most. On average, far-right parties increase their vote share by 30 per cent after such a crisis. On the other hand, decades of research have failed to find any evidence that voters respond to personal economic suffering by punishing the incumbent. Belonging to a group whose economic interests have been directly harmed seems only rarely to change political preferences. We are passionate animals. Passion, as Karl Marx wrote, is our ‘essential force’. To understand what’s happening today, we must return to the passions. Among the passions, the most important for this chapter is resentment. For good reasons, resentment is seen as a dis...
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Alongside the conservative nationalism of the right, which emphasises tradition, religion or ethnicity, there are liberal nationalisms that can be just as powerful and as exclusionary. Think of the way that British governments, from the 1990s on, have made a forceful distinction between deserving and undeserving migrants: for instance, in policing access to the welfare state. Or of the way in which supposedly European values of tolerance and free speech are deployed in order to stigmatise outsiders who, for religious or cultural reasons, are assumed not to share them. 'Protecting the European way of life' from migrants
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"Putting a stop to the far Right’s advances and the furious referendums would demand a break with the social-demolition policies that feed… the far Right’s advances and the furious referendums. Yet these are neoliberalism’s very policies!" An Oligarchy Aggrieved
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