Re: Enemies Not Allies: The Far-Right
Reply #62 - August 17, 2011, 10:09 PM
Robert Spencer seems genuinely oblivious to the resonance of his support for the EDL.
If you don't want to get tagged as far-right, don't consort with, or support, bigoted, thuggish, street fighting ex football hooligans, saturated with far-right bigots. An expectation of scrupulous care in the alliances formed when you enter the public space and seek to influence opinion is perfectly reasonable, and a failure to exercise that care, has some consequences as far as you are perceived.
The EDL was transparent from the very beginning, despite the rhetoric that some of their leaders used - the most generous thing that can be said about any advocacy or support for them, if any subsequent repudiation is genuine, is that it would involve a level of gullibility that is shocking in its negligence.
"we can smell traitors and country haters"
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