What's with everything being labelled far-right these days?

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Only so many buzzwords out there, regurgitated over and over again, that's how propaganda becomes widely accepted. And it happens on both sides of the political agenda and in a lot of other areas, it's so dull and stagnant and overplayed, the whole Internet is just, ruined. And it was such a great melting pot of ideas for the few years at the beginning, we should be so pissed off that everything it could have been, a meeting place of minds and ideas, has essentially been co-opted and taken from us and will never be anything like it could have been edited for clarity

I came across an article about it on The Guardian

In case you are not aware, The Guardian is a British newspaper. Britain's political right is not the same compared to the US. Many people in Britain see the entire right wing of the US as far right.

It’s a smear tactic to discredit and dehumanize. It seems to be used by the weaker position to undermine the stronger position because otherwise simple facts and reasoning would be enough but for propaganda everything has to be us or them extremism. Both sides use this but it seems like the left uses it a lot because of their control over most media platforms.

Almost every issue is categorized and labeled as either far right or far left. It's a tactic used to keep us divided so that the people can never unite. Just look at the college protests going on, right wing media is doing a good job of labeling them as communists, paid agitators, etc. It's like how anyone who even showed up to the capital on January 6th is labelled as a far right extremist

i got an especially nice kick out of reading that just wanting to have babies is now a far right plot to save humanity from extinction.

anybody with half a brain should be able to see they (the left?) are doing everything within their power to undo and invert everything wholesome and good, in an attempt to replace it with what has historically been considered abhorrent and taboo.

its almost as if simply having a decent moral compass now automatically gets you labeled a 'racist conservative far right wing radical white supremacist republican nazi extremist misinformation spreading conspiracy theorist'.

shits wild.

I agree strongly. It’s quite strange. My theory is that we live in an era of desensitisation. We are all walking zombies to an extent, dopamine drained, and social media has destroyed our brains. For people to get a reaction or a rise out of someone, they have to label them something REALLY bad. Something that we’ve not really seen in the Western mainstream for quite some time, since Hitler and Mussolini. We are effectively running out of ways to trigger people into a response, and so this is the way it is done. I also think it is such a fringe group of people that most people haven’t actually had any interactions with genuine far right people. There is a degree of mystery and a lack of knowledge of what it truly means.

So you have de-sensitised people + a rather unknown but scary concept to most = it’s become a tool used by politicians and media to continue their fear mongering.

Apologies if incoherent, I’m on vacation and have had a few beers🤣

They are increasing the divide between the left and right.

• Candace Owens: “We need to stop calling  them liberals and begin referring to them as exactly what they are: American communists that wish to partake in the destruction of western civilization”
• After Iowa shooting, Candace Owens says LGBTQ+ community is ‘sexual plague on our society’
• “BE HONEST: Would  You Want Your Son To Be Gay?
• “This episode is blowing up so I just want to say-After looking into this, I would stake my entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man. Any journalist or publication that is trying to dismiss this plausibility is immediately identifiable as establishment. I have never seen anything like this in my life. The implications here are terrifying”
• Candace Owens: "The Munchkins - Oompa  Loompas, whatever you want to call them - are throwing a party while there is a dead person under a house and they're skipping with Dorothy...Obviously this is some sort of a satanic ritual"
• Tucker Carlson and now Candace Owens are making a big deal about how the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was wrong, and the latter imply it as an “anti Christian” event, too
• “Something is going  on with Justin Bieber and it has everything to do with him being a Christian in demonic Hollywood. If you aren't paying attention yet- the media has recently launched a full scale attack on Christianity. And therefore me”

• Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes celebrates Candace Owens: “She has been in a full-fledged war against the Jews”
• Candace is on team Fuentes now
• Candace Owens suggests that there are secret Jewish gangs controlling and killing people in Hollywood
• Candace Owens Endorses Wild, Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theory About Jews Being ‘Drunk on Christian Blood’
• Candace Owens rails at “D.C. Jew[s],” tells Jewish people there is a “rot” in their community
• Candace Owens warns that “Jews are going to be blamed” if TikTok is banned
• “Did you know that when Dresden was incinerated back in 1945, it was Ash Wednesday? Christians were burned alive on Ash Wednesday- many of them were refugees from Stalin's Christian Holocaust. Christians will no longer be told that we aren't allowed to know or discuss our history.”
• "The Greatest Holocaust That Ever Happened Was Against Christians And What The Bolsheviks Did To Us."

That is how propaganda works. It is obvious, but surprisingly, it works way better than you would think. A lot of people find it much easier to believe the craziest things rather than believe that they're being manipulated. A reality where the governments and media collude together to propagandize its own people in this way can be pretty scary. Better to commit genocide and burn people in ovens rather than admit awareness.

Probably because it's an accurate description on their positions according to the political spectrum. I would suggest, that if everything you see is being labeled incorrectly, that you might be as "liberal" as you think and that you also might exist in an echo chamber.

If you believe in biology youre considered far right

People that have far right views would in no universe regard themselves as far right.

At this point if you are deemed worthy of the label “far right” wear it with pride. It probably means you have a job, a nuclear family, pay taxes and care about your neighbors and your country. You are the blessed happy people and that drives progressives nuts. 🥜

It's an easy and convenient way to dismiss something from someone you don't agree with. Just label them "far" whatever or add in an -ist or -ism

Excuse my ignorance, politics is something I really avoid, but could you(op, or someone else) explain how authoritarianism and fascism are considered "far-right" when they're traditionally an extreme version of socialist/communist (more liberal) views?

So you don't think the woman who defends Hitler and white nationalism is far right? There's literal video of her doing it.

https://abcnews.go.com/ABCNews/repted-lieu-plays-clip-candace-owens-hitler-comments/story?id=62286256

Now to be fair, I think Owen's is just a scammer speaking to her audience to make money and she herself isn't actually s nazi. She's one of those people with zero scruples and will say anything, including speaking against her own race, if the price is right. But with the things she's said, it's absolutely fair to call her far right.

Just admit you know nothing about Owen's but decided it was important for you to tell us all about it

It's kind of a low-key way of saying "this person bad". It puts an image in the mind of the average media consumer that the person being discussed does not support the narrative that the channel in question is pushing, and therefore they are dangerously racist, sexist, homophobic, and all sorts of terrible things, and ya better not listen to anything they say unless it's to criticize them.

The left and right paradigm is inherently meant to divide. Thats the purpose it serves. Ultimately both left and right are pro authoritarian statists whenever it suits their agendas. The pendulum swinging back and forth is just Hegelian dialectics.

The people who are calling other people far right are doing a disservice to themselves. 

These people are calling opposing rational views far right while debating which public bus windows taste the best. 

Meanwhile, the government is getting caught dressing up as the far right groups trying to deceive the public into allowing them to scale back your rights while they battle 'the far right menace'. 

People who have not figured out that politics is one big act are the problem. Right, left, libertarian, etc...

The lunatics who think 'far right' means anything outside of their fringe groups are the same people who show up on public freakout clips. 

It is hilarious how often context clues identify mentally unwell members of society. 

Right wing accusations, obnoxious 1960's style eyeglass frames, unnatural hair dyes, etc...are ALWAYS a warning sign to keep the conversation short, and depart their company before they complete their manifesto.

Well the right has been using the tactic for decades: anyone who disagrees with the fundamentals of Thatcher/Reagan neoliberalist doctrine is labelled as far left/socialist.

It’s a nasty tactic, but it wasn’t invented 5 years ago by the Guardian. Rather it’s simply a case of it being deployed more widely across the political battleground.

It’s the same game the Nazis and the communists played to get their governments to the state history remembers them by. Dehumanize the enemy, chant simple slogans so every party member can understand them, utilize primarily disaffected youths because they are easier to convince and control, etc

Your face is far right!!!!

Far right is used just as indiscriminately as Marxist. Pejoratives make people feel good.

the idea is to brainwash us in to becoming or believing in the most polar opposite BS possible

It's all about creating divisions within society so we argue with each other, instead of holding politicians to account, now if you say anything against the government your labeled either a separatist or a Terrorist, governments have way too much control over our lives

do you finally realize that the left users any trigger words they can, yet they do what they claim is: crimes against humanity...? we can talk, disagree/ agree, shake hands & leave. meet up tomorrow & do it all over again. men do this all the time when they watch sports. but today's liberal is so fragile, this comment will have them calling me far-right too... remember folks, Facts, Not Feelings.

It's division tactics at their finest.

Yup, it's called "framing".

The people who are trying to destroy our way of life use propaganda to pit us one against the other. White vs everyone else, Christian vs everyone else, LGBTQ+ vs normal people, etc, etc, etc. You can quickly and easily see who the enemies of the new wannabe state are.

The Far Right(TM) is everyone who isn't politically aligned with TPTB (aka the New World Order, aka the Banking Cabal). If you're not willing to be treated like cattle by your self-proclaimed betters, you're Far Right or Alt Right(TM).

Well... because that's the opposite side of "radical leftist" being used for anyone that isn't a Trump supporter.

This is our political ecosystem now. It's extremely disappointing. But it's exactly what the politicians and media want.

Far right now is anyone who listens/agrees/believes any misinformation. Misinformation being anything that is not the official narrative of the government in power.

MSM have no credibility, but divide and rule works so well. 

I think maybe you just fell into some far right thinking bud :)

lifelong liberals are now being labeled as far right

words have lost all meaning as far as politics are concerned.

Candace Owens has definitely done her best to appeal to the far right

if you go far enough left on the horseshoe everything becomes far right, until you yourself become far right.

Propaganda, indoctrination, and brainwashing. Everything that is not ‘Far-Left’ is ‘Far/Alt-Right’. Blue-Dog Democrat? You’re Far-Right. Middle of the Road Moderate? You’re Far-Right. Believe in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights? You’re Far-Right. Slightly right of center? Nope, you’re Far-Right. Left of center? Nope, you’re not liberal enough and are Far-Right.

‘Racist/Sexist/Bigoted/Homophobe/Transphobe’ are all part of the propaganda. What we are seeing in the USA now, and what the UK and Canada have been dealing with for a while longer, is very similar to the beginning of the Nazi Party. People often wonder how decent, Protestant Christian Germans could have been okay with rounding up Jews and other ‘undesirables’, stealing all of their property, and shipping them off to ‘work camps’ and ‘old age Jewish ghettos’ and they wonder how those same Germans could be okay with forcing innocent, defenseless men, women, and children into a gas shower. The answer is simple - they were indoctrinated and, over time, brainwashed into the propaganda that stated that Jews were not human like they were. They came to believe that Jewish men, women, and children were subhuman animals and so they didn’t deserve the same rights and protections afforded to human beings.

This is what we are seeing today via social media such as Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and mainstream media like CNN, MSNBC, (and Fox News will happily join them before long as Fox hasn’t been Conservative’ news for well over a decade now) and print/web newspapers like The Atlantic, The New York Times, Vice, The Guardian, and the rest. Anything that is not outright Marxist is labeled ‘Far-Right’ and, therefore, bad and wrong.

Christians are bad, but Muslims somehow aren’t; however, if they ever achieved their goal of executing every Christian then the Jews and Muslims would be the next to go, followed by Hindus and Buddhists because any and all religions are evil, racist, and bad. Ironic when you realize that Marxism is itself a religion, although they refuse to admit it. Republicans are evil, racist, and bad. Conservatives are evil, racist, and bad. Moderates and even Democrats that do not support Marxism are evil, racist, and bad.

All you have to do is just watch the news and you’ll quickly learn what they want you to believe about any and all Christians, Conservatives, Republicans, Libertarians, and Moderate Democrats. You are to fall into lock-step and vote for people who stick a Planned Parenthood on virtually every inner-city street corner they can find in order to bring about their Lord Margret Sanger’s sole goal of the elimination of all black Americans, and you’re not allowed to question them especially if you yourself are black! Just forget that every Democrat rolls into your city, makes a bunch of promises to black Americans in those cities, and then once they get your vote they won’t step foot into your city again until it’s time to make more promises that they won’t even pretend to try to keep in order to secure your vote once again.

The worst part of all of this? I think it’s now too late to reverse this train or somehow force it off of the tracks. I can easily see the collapse of America and American society within the next fifteen years, and eventually there probably will be the rounding up the new ‘Undesirables’ and lining us up on the edge of a ditch as they open fire on innocent American men, women, and children.

I pray constantly that I am wrong.

Because the propaganda machine keeps spinning the wheels of division. Even if you don’t care about a topic, the fact that you don’t SUPPORT it means you’re anti and the opposition. Makes me sick sometimes. Like how I’m considered racist simply because I’m white, according to some people. Can’t wait for Americans to get pushed too far and something finally happens.

Because after the q movement (or whatever you want to call it) it was the fastest way to portray someone as stupid or downright crazy. That became easier and wide spread with Trump hate and q crowd fusing together.

Then came covid. You have decimated what was previously known as "the right" and now they also become anti-vaxxers. Far right becomes a catch all for everything people think is untrue or ridiculous.

Soon anything that doesn't go along with what you want, can easily be far right. Instant dismissal. Whether the person is on the right or not.

It became an easy catch all. And now that the term is being used to categorize, demonize and discredit - others begin to avoid behaviors that could get them called far right.

I was never far right. But anything I disagree with is.
So the "far right" is really a mix of people. Made up of people that are rightwing, and people that aren't and people that agree and disagree with certain parts of each party.

But now it's just a word again. It's lost its meaning like bigot, racist, colonizer and transphobe.

“If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well — OK, fine,” she said after she was asked about the word “nationalism,” according to BuzzFeed News, which first reported her remarks. “The problem is he had dreams outside of Germany,” she continued. “He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German.”

Gee, I wonder why people say she's far right?

The left has been using terms like “far right”, “racist”, etc. to label any opposition or opponent to their ideologies, policies, etc.

It’s a way to immediately discredit and shut down conversation and opposition so as to not have to address it. They will use that label even if someone is moderate, centrist, or only right-leaning.

Unfortunately, it has worked. Most people have bought into it. The left does not care so long as they win.

Divide and conquer

Words have lost all meaning these days and can be whatever you want.

Cause only the far right asks questions you fucking Nazi!

Simply put, The far right have taken over the conservative side of the aisle. The Republican Party is now represented by trump, MTG and the handjob queen herself, Boebert. Race hate is growing exponentially, so much so that mtg and trump have dined with literal hitler apologists. Desantis couldn’t even bring himself to use harsher words than “knuckleheads” for the nazi rally outside Disney world. 

It's part of the post-nuance narrative. Our leaders/media round things up and down so that there is no center. When a given side isn't in charge, the side that is dog whistles a few unifying ideas to their base while very plainly and very arrogantly throwing as much chaff at the other side as is possible. The hope is to personalize, in the other side, reasons to hate and to balkanize your opposition around many issues so that they come across as incoherent to the other side and stay divided.

Everything is far right, because something halfway might be platformed instead of dismissed outright. It also provides a side benefit of being able to denounce ideas as ideologically impure which scares people away from entertaining them.

The silver lining is that critical thinking, rational people (probably 10%-15% of adults by personality type) grow numb to it and are able to rabble rouse when there are problems affecting all sides, such as crime or the economy. This shit only works when the political base thinks they will be warm, safe, and well fed.

I’m confused as to what the real difference is between the left and right politically? It seems as if they are one and the same when it comes to arming and funding Ukraine & Israel. Both political sides support the “no oversight” of billions of American taxpayers money to Ukraine. They both support the brutal attack and war crimes of Saudi Arabia n the Houthies. They both are dead set on helping Israel commit Genocide in Gaza. They both have passed anti boycotting laws of Israel in the past and present congresses. They bith support the illegal war and occupation of Syria and the theft of Syrian oil. Illegal wars going on is Somalia as well. It goes on and on and on where both parties agree. So I’m finding hard to see why there’s even stupid differences even being given the time of day. There’s more important things going on. For the 2nd election in a row we will have a choice of a corrupt criminal with Dimentia and TV playboy billionaire that supports Genocide and the vaccination program that was purposefully released on the world after illegally been manufactured by the NIH, Eco health alliance and the Chinese Wuhan Lab of Virology

Glen Greenwald has covered this topic extensively. If you aren't strictly in line with the establishment narratives, you are far right. Even liberals who stray just the smallest bit, are dangerous far right lunatics. It's wild

If you’re not left you’re farrrrr right

Far right, far left, extremist, et al. You see, for the most part, people just want to live their lives. They are not given to drama and outbursts. However, to make it big and make it stick in the timeline we are in, you have to be EXTREME! Normal, mundane, people that don't flock to rallies, or get truck wraps, are busy with living. They are educated voters and will vote accordingly. The people who rock the boat get the attention but they aren't necessarily the people you want to pay attention to. Faux drama abounds.

Tho I'm not a huge fan of Biden, one thing I like about him is he is not given to a lot of manufactured drama. I think this fools a lot of people and the Sleepy Joe moniker has stuck.

Fascist works as well.

". .extremist..."

Far-right simply means further right than the current status quo, which is already right wing. Candace Owens is certainly that.

It’s losing its effectiveness. They will have to find some other propaganda stigma.

This whole comment section has gotten infiltrated by pretentious know it all leftists that can't take the slightest criticism of themselves. They're so delusional their arguments prove many of the points I made without them even realizing. Heard someone say we're fat autistic incels. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm not fat, autistic or an incel. You can't assume my looks or social life based on the fact I'm talking about politics, but I can assume your personality by the way you respond to me. If anyone has a personal issue ask for my actual socials and I don't mean the likes of discord or telegram because you mightn't believe it but I don't have those. I hardly even use this. Last day has been the longest I used it and that's only to reply to comments.

The more it gets used the sooner it will lose currency. Hitler stocks are gradually going down. That bad guy has had a good run. The Nazi/fascist accusations are very tired. Far right is more flexible. Even so, it is already past its sell by date. What next?

This post seems far-right lol

It's kind of like people on the other wing of the same bird who label anything and everything they've been told to disagree with 'woke' or 'Marxist' or 'leftist'.

It's a way for intellectually lazy people to dismiss anyone or anything who challenges their worldview without having to form a coherent argument.

You're either sucking directly from the teat of Pfizer and wolfing down large quantities of experimental gene therapy, or you're a far right extremist.

You're either actively participating in transgender advocacy parades, or you're a far right extremist.

You're either 100% in favor of draconian gun control, or you're a far right extremist.

I am not the person who jumps through those hoops to not be considered a far right extremist, but I am most definitely not a far right extremist. I don't identify with either political party in this country, but on reddit, any sort of moderate may as well be a far right extremist.

When the left has gone off the edge, everything else is "far right" to them.

They're in a cult. Except they don't believe in God so they worship daddy government and their political dogma. Anyone who doesn't toe the party line is branded a heretic ie far right. Very sick people!

The Overton window for liberals has shifted so much that anyone right of Marx is far/alt right

In my opinion, there definitely have been pushed further right AND left by both sides. When you start getting groups of people that would never agree with a single idea of the other side, I would say you are pretty far left or right.

I definitely agree more with one side, but could see myself voting the other side if the candidate checks the boxes that are important to me. I know in reality a lot of people are like that, but people speak like there aren’t.

They use extremists on both sides to try and sway the less intelligent people. It's much easier to get people to your side if you make the other person look like a lunatic that is the exact opposite. Of course this is rarely true, but most people are too stupid or lazy to figure it out for themselves, so they read a headline that says "so and so is far left/right, therefore don't trust them" then these people feel that they have all the info they need because why would the news lie? Then they parrot it, write it online and suddenly someone is labeled a thing because the propaganda works.

If it bothers you, consider the reality that all of politics is a circus and if you are subscribing to any party and basing your opinions on what you are being fed so you can feel like a winner, or correct, you are being tricked and you are exactly the target of all of this. Each side is fake, it doesn't matter who did what, or how bad this was compared to that, they both manipulate people to be in power and honestly, they have the same goals.

It's division tactics at their finest.

That's a very right-wing thing to say!!!

It's for the same reason that everything was labeled communist before in the last century. Oppression of opposition.

Funny I hear the opposite

Bro. I'm pro-gay, pro-choice, pro-drugs, anti-religion, pro-feminism, pro-immigration etc.

I got called a "far-right racist" because I was skeptical of the government forcing people to take the Covid vaccine.

Being leftist is a competition. So over the past decade or so "Good Leftists" have become so extreme that anyone right of Marx is "Extreme Right".

There are no acceptable centrists, no moderates, it's all "Good Leftists" and extremist right-wing rabid, baby-eating Nazis.

the Media, including controlled information sources, are all "Good Leftists"

"far-right" is a term a lot like "conspiracy theorist" - it's a manufactured term that's supposed to make you react with fear. It's a catch-all repository of every xenophobic fear - a label designed to mark you as a pariah and crazy person in order to marginalize you and limit your reach. It's a label designed to entrain you into a hypnotic trance - the minute you hear it, your brain excuses itself from doing any more listening to that person, even if what they're saying sounds reasonable to you. This is because the human social drive is stronger than the drive to self-preservation. It makes us readily hackable. But unfortunately, collectively we haven't yet truly recognized that we are constantly under fire by informational weapons..

Election Year

There’s a campaign. Conscious or not, it steers the normal person toward a little bit less liberty each day. Each year. Each term. Zoom out.