r/southafrica • u/allthisjusttocomment • Mar 19 '18

Redditor provides counter-argument to documentary about South Africa's "Reverse Apartheid"

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u/DarfSmiff Mar 19 '18

There certainly is a lot of noise in the system, and I'd argue that it's mostly been driven by various governments and very large mainstream media companies in an effort to shift the Overton Window much further to the left than it was even 5 years ago, resulting in statements such as:

a newly resurgent neo-nazi sentiment in the west.

to be pretty commonplace despite there being little to no evidence of this.

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u/Calmdownplease Mar 19 '18

I don’t know man, look at the rise in popularity of right wing parties in all sorts of places including Italy and France. In addition center right parties are moving more right to appease increasingly older, paranoid voter bases (Republican Party is a great example in the US).

It’s not all doom and gloom but it’s feeling like the west is fracturing and the east is stabilizing.

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u/JonideBlam Mar 20 '18

So right means neo-nazi? Huh.

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u/Calmdownplease Mar 20 '18

Far right certainly does and honestly Le Pen and Salvini are way to close to neo nazi than I, or any right thinking (lol) person, should be happy with.