{"id":290675,"date":"2017-01-19T02:29:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T01:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-myth-of-the-right-wing-extremist\/"},"modified":"2017-01-19T02:29:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T01:29:01","slug":"the-myth-of-the-right-wing-extremist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-myth-of-the-right-wing-extremist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of the Right Wing Extremist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>By Andrew Joyce<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Neither man nor angel can discern<br \/>Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks<br \/>Invisible.<\/p>\n<p>John Milton, <em>Paradise Lost<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Anglosphere stands transfixed by an elusive bogeyman: \u2018right wing extremism.\u2019 And more than any other nation at the present time, the United Kingdom seems to be in the grip of a media-engineered social panic bordering on paranoid hysteria. This same country, it should be recalled, banned Richard Spencer in June because he had the temerity to advocate for the founding of a White nation on lines similar to those of the State of Israel. Spencer also dared to suggest an ideal of racial self-improvement. In the view of the British Home Office, then under the authority of Theresa May (now Prime Minister), if Spencer continued making such suggestions on British soil it would not be \u201cconducive to the public good.\u201d Furthermore, and without any self-awareness of its own hyperbolic unreason, the same department claimed that Spencer\u2019s positions amounted to the \u201cfomenting\u201d of \u201cserious criminal acts,\u201d \u201cterrorist acts,\u201d and \u201cinter-community violence in the UK.\u201d Spencer, according to this narrative, is an \u2018extremist.<\/p>\n<p>Given such an assessment, one might expect that the aftermath of an average NPI conference would be a veritable war zone. One imagines minorities fleeing the disintegrating streets of Washington D.C., pursued by radicalized and frenzied militants in trendy three piece suits. All, presumably, against a cacophony of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/the-myth-of-the-right-wing-extremist\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Joyce Neither man nor angel can discernHypocrisy, the only evil that walksInvisible. John Milton, Paradise Lost The Anglosphere stands transfixed by an elusive bogeyman: \u2018right wing extremism.\u2019 And more than any other nation at the present time, the United Kingdom seems to be in the grip of a media-engineered social panic bordering on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}