anes Europe's racist farrght is rot on be rise. its always been tere, This Palitcal Woman —Medlum Flavia Dzodan (Follow ) Craten) lands, Europe's racist far right is not on the rise. It’s always been there. For how long does Europe's racist right need to “rise” before it is acknowledged that Europe is racist and this is not the by product of recent social discontent? Across Europe, the media narrative goes more or less like this: 9/11 happened and that brought out a wave of Islamophobia that was used by manipulative politicians to further their careers. In turn, the austerity measures that followed the financial crisis of 2011 exacerbated the anti immigrant sentiment leading to a rise of racist rhetoric in “the common people”. Bullshit. All of it. ‘What these media narratives tend to do is obfuscate the reality of ingrained, unaddressed racism across the continent. The never acknowledged and redressed centuries of colonial interventions; the legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the wealth that it created and/or transferred to the continent; the historically more recent corporate interventions in the Global South that deplete local resources at the expense of European wealth. All of these and more have created a culture of European racial superiority and sense of entitlement over the “Other” which, in contemporary terms, reached its peak in WW2. ‘The underlying sentiments never really went away. ‘Now, with a combination of Brexit political analysis and a number of elections coming up in the next year across Europe, media repeats this like itis a novel idea: the racist far right ison the rise. A cursory look at recent history proves that this nonsense is a vapid and empty repetition of what has been said for at least 20 years, Take a look at my haphazard archive: 1997 Dutch Newspaper Trouw: Professor Fortuyn against Islamization hip simectum,cemths-polical-womanleopes-racist-far-righ-s-noton-he~ise-ts-lays-been-tere-cB 15088885 BxmKgE gk 0sarren016 Europe's racist far right is rot on be ris its always been tere, This Patical Woman —Metan Tro deVerdieping Home Nieuws Opinie Groen Religie fflosofe. Schiff Foto w Multi-geleerde Fortuyn tegen de 'islamisering’ ‘AMSTERDAM Pin Fenty eatin in ue Toe de alaing vn In 1997, before he launched his political career, Pim Fortuyn, who was later on murdered by an extreme left animal rights activist, released a pamphlet against “the Islamization of our culture”. This pamphlet marked the beginning of his political career. 1998: BBC covering German Electio 1B] BIC Naa E) News m Audio MH News inVideo Newyddion Moxos Notes 9h. GERMAN ELECTION Wecnesaay, September 16, 008 Pushed at £2:14 GMT 144 UK. bushess | The rise of the exirenie right SciTech | Gera sO The rise of the extreme From the article “One far-right party, the Republicans, assert that “unrelenting mass J immigration has brought criminal foreigners into Germany’. hip simectum,cemths-polical-womanleopes-racist-far-righ-s-noton-he~ise-ts-lays-been-tere-cB 15088885 BxmKgE gk 20anes Europe's racist farrght is rot on be rise. its always been tere, This Palitcal Woman —Medlum The heart of his campaign was the crude demand that jobs should be taken away from foreigners and given to Germans In Saxony-Anhalt, nearly one-third of all voters under the age of 30 supported the DVU. In the country as a whole, opinion polls show some 10% of voters sympathise with far-right groups. 1 99 8 Again, the BBC on Anti-foreigner campaigning in Bavaria TIE onunenerwom vere evo somone MCR tLcn CWORD Enc EEE @Nenite, SEnesne aaa [a ‘FrontPace | (| al GERMAN a RESIN) | Sscaiszraatea ‘fusnes | Anti-foreigner camp: Geren in Bavai Internet Links (Chisian Democratic 8 Independent UK Far-right harks on violence to win votes. 1 99. A scathing analysis of the troubling rise of the BNP (does, this sound familiar?!) 9 8 BBG wonders in an alarming tone! France: a haven of 1 9 intolerance? hip simectum,cemths-polical-womanleopes-racist-far-righ-s-noton-he~ise-ts-lays-been-tere-cB 15088885 BxmKgE gk atosarren016 Europe's racist far right is rot on be ris its always been tere, This Patical Woman —Metan GMI ONLINE NETWORK —_woremer|srmar|somDULES| me MYON mE “4 Nes nde SNe nian Reale [eer] [Na] SIAN Front eng, 7,168 Ped 240 GMT 240 UK ae World: Analysis UK Polties France: a haven —— of intolerance? Health ‘The BBC's Jonathan Marcus reports on how the National Education Front built up a strong local ‘Sport | Eacenyetvorsian Meroue power base, by bringing Entertainment issues like immigration on to ‘the political agenda. (Now that we have established that these ideas were mainstream way before 9/11, for the sake of brevity, lets skip a few years) 2 0 103 ‘The Guardian: Bardot’s right-wing rant shocks France. France is shocked! Totally shocked! because nobody has said things like this before! 1g me the fainting couch, sil vous plait! fotesirrclriiy Bardot's right-wing rant shocks France From the article: No prize for guessing which French politician Ms Bardot most admires: Jean-Marie le Pen, the leader of the far right National Front. To BB, he is “faithful to his ideas through thick and thin”, 2 00 6 Spiegel is shocked! Holland's New Greeting for 4 D . hip simectum,cemths-polical-womanleopes-racist-far-righ-s-noton-he~ise-ts-lays-been-tere-cB 15088885 BxmKgE gk 410anes Europe's racist farrght is rot on be rise. its always been tere, This Palitcal Woman —Medlum onan hen Cree or mgr ‘if it Ain't Dutch, It Ain't Much’ nce neat rapes most menor ey curry, the eed hasty been cack owe A ‘ww apo at on Dh be spoken othe set ef and ut he atest a. Bost amo “nme oe beng ese Christopher Hitchens writes at Slate: Le Pen rises again. 2007 sett sarssterbarspbisnppor, shocking! te Pen rises again! Queue the inevitable, totally new question: how can this happen?! ‘The supposed “rise” of Le Pen was about the father of current presidential candidate French Marine Le Pen. The father was notorious for his Holocaust Denial ideas and violent rhetoric against non whites. 2 009 ‘The Daily Mail is on the case! (glass houses + stones, ete come to mind) The far right is on the march again: the rise of Fascism in Austria Mail Oniine News | U.S. |S The far right is on the march again: the rise of Fascism in Austria In Austria's recent goneral election, nary 30 por cont of voters backed extremist right-wing parties. Live visits the birthplace of Hier to investigate how Fascism is ‘once again throataning to erupt across Europe. 2 The Guardian uncovers an uncomfortable truth! Anti- 009 srrssrancandtuephobicfrsigh pe ride populist wave hip simectum,cemths-polical-womanleopes-racist-far-righ-s-noton-he~ise-ts-lays-been-tere-cB 15088885 BxmKgE gk stosarren016 Europe's racist far right is rot on be ris its always been tere, This Patical Woman —Metan ETT gual ‘wepaneetns An -immigrant and Europhobic - far right parties ride populist wave 2 01 Oo OMG how did this happen?! Far-right Geert Wilders Jooks like next Dutch PM aces THE WEEK —_ Far-right Geert Wilders looks like next Dutch PM Waters witstow nop ln othe Has Loader win a lee 0 By ee § 2071 Spiegel warns! Marine Le Pen (daughter) polling ahead of ‘Sarkozy SPIEGEL ONLINE oensrrese. sieseu Tv co ==} INTERNATIONAL omni | Oat OAR 1 Tage | te ‘Marine Le Pen's Populism for the Masses French pata arn Pe i atracting new voters oh atonal Ft, he gw pout party tcunded y her tather byrne nmirton and obalzaton Wan France's electors» Ya 2H, Le Penis ren olin stead of Preset Mole Suh. yas en fone 20711 ‘Spiegel is worried! They write: Geert Wilders wants to ban, the Kor onheadse tert cost of immigration, As an aside, in July this yeer, Spiegel published an interview with him where he repeated this exact same ideas. hip simectum,cemths-polical-womanleopes-racist-far-righ-s-noton-he~ise-ts-lays-been-tere-cB 15088885 BxmKgE gk a0anes Europe's racist farrght is rot on be rise. its always been tere, This Palitcal Woman —Medlum Telegraph expresses concern! Swiss far-right party on course for 20T1 record-breaking election win 2011 The Telegraph Swiss far-right party on course for record-breaking election win A Swiss far-right party campaigning with stark promises to curb imm and to protect the national identity appears poised for a record-break in Sunday's parliamentary elections. @ 0 ®@ © O O- Ps See The privat: as Commuters walk past posters of the farright Swiss Peoples Party at @ = ralway station in Bem Prot: FABRICE COFFRINUAED, By Matthew Day n itl They rise the alarm: 2012 Finally! Thank god that CNN i ’ hip simectum,cemths-polical-womanleopes-racist-far-righ-s-noton-he~ise-ts-lays-been-tere-cB 15088885 BxmKgE gk m0sarren016 Europe's racist far right is rot on be ris its always been tere, This Patical Woman —Metan Is the far right gaining ground in Europe? nme ES et ST At 5,20: ec 2 1 And because, everything old is new again, this week we 0 6 have current Dutch Health Minister Edith Schippers repeating Geert Wilders words 8 years later. hip simectum,cemths-polical-womanleopes-racist-far-righ-s-noton-he~ise-ts-lays-been-tere-cB 15088885 BxmKgE gk aiosarren016 Europe's racist far right is rot on be ris its always been tere, This Patical Woman —Metan THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. < acs » ‘Our Culture Is Better’ Die wn dsr One Were se ech pain Ware act somehng at rey ery Dutch” “Prefnty noes me. Tee other Cet icentes emesis 2016 Health Mininister Edith Schippers no” Schippers: Onze cultuur is nee dan andere 4 a ' AA =a So no, Europe's racist right is not on the rise. This is European culture expressing itself publicly. The problem is that this same culture has collectively agreed that it holds anti racist and inclusive values even when decades of documented politics prove otherwise. This? This is the status quo. hip simectum,cemths-polical-womanleopes-racist-far-righ-s-noton-he~ise-ts-lays-been-tere-cB 15088885 BxmKgE gk a0sarren016 Europe's racist far right is rot on be ris its always been tere, This Patical Woman —Metan hip simectum,cemths-polical-womanleopes-racist-far-righ-s-noton-he~ise-ts-lays-been-tere-cB 15088885 BxmKgE gk sa10