The Mosley stuff is as weird as ever and if you put it together with the cultural Marxism thing - a straightforward antisemitic trope - you just get...Jesus I don't know what, but it's a bit whiffy.
Well, obviously I'm sorry to confuse you. My central and very general point is that historical perspective puts things in a different light, to the extent that many of the attitudes to the EU, etc. currently considered 'correct', "progressive" and fashionable were originally held, not that long ago, by people (such as Mosely) who were actually pretty extreme. It's easy to forget that "fascist" was not always an insult -- Mosely's original party called itself the "British Union of Fascists" in the 30s -- it was at least an honest label. You wouldn't have agreed with him on various race-related issues of course, and I'd join you on that -- and in fact I personally would be against him on virtually everything (unlike Michael Foot, who apparently called him "the best Prime Minister we never had", or some such). Yes, it's confusing. You see how history changes how you see things?
It occurs to me also that Mosely actually had far less practical motivation for his anti-semitism than does the current Labour Party, as unlike them he didn't have a muslim block vote to retain, so on balance he was probably the more evil, but it's a close run thing.
"Diversity of opinion" on campus is under far more serious threat from the government's Prevent strategy than it is from [holds nose] "cultural Marxists", but then that program tends to target Muslims, and represents the kind of suppression of diversity that you favour, as a fan of that dodgy far right "European values" clan:
https://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum...ou-done-part-xxii.207836/page-23#post-3232547
They're all coming out of the woodwork now, I can't help noticing. Getting worried...
You're probably right about "Prevent". I don't know enough about it to comment.
It was a fine statement, I think. I cannot see anything particularly "right-wing" about it, it looks to me like common sense. Particularly as it emphasised Europe purely as a geographical patchwork of independent states, rather than some supra-national institution. We share much culture with geographical Europe, and that statement encapsulated that. Other regions of the world have similar shared values & culture.
Woodwork? Anything that emerges from that has probably always been there -- you just didn't notice it, so you maybe assumed that everyone around you was 'on message'. One thing that's become clear over the last few years is that if people feel a burning anger over something, you won't necessarily know, but eventually they will express it, and the longer it takes before that happens, the bigger the resulting shock as felt by those privileged by the
status quo. Like East Germany in 1989.