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How to Defeat the Far Right

By jackbuckby 11th May 201913th January 2020
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  Everyone makes stupid mistakes when they’re a teenager. It just so happens that mine was posing for a photograph with Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP.   I should clarify: this wasn’t some poorly-judged ‘celebrity’ snap. At the time of the picture, I was a fully paid-up member of Continue Reading

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jackbuckbyJack Buckby 🇬🇧🇺🇸@jackbuckby·
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Why is it that we elevate commentators who have no understanding of why young men join the far right, and who draw wildly inaccurate conclusions about it, while dismissing and ignoring men like me who have this lived experience and could actually help solve the problem.

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jackbuckbyJack Buckby 🇬🇧🇺🇸@jackbuckby·
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Honestly if I just topped myself I'm confident plenty of these people would either cheer or quietly sigh in relief that I won't ever tarnish their delicate reputation in a volatile political scene.

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I am treated much the same by radical progressives who hate me, moderate liberals who pretend not to know me, & conservatives who are scared of being associated with me.

They'd all rather I slipped away into obscurity, or just died, for my sins of being an angry naive teenager.

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jackbuckbyJack Buckby 🇬🇧🇺🇸@jackbuckby·
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I'm tired of it. I made mistakes as a young man but I did so because I saw real injustices in working-class communities like mine. Finally some of these injustices are being recognised but nobody wants to talk to the young men who responded to them, admittedly angrily, years ago.

Jack Buckby 🇬🇧🇺🇸@jackbuckby

I am treated much the same by radical progressives who hate me, moderate liberals who pretend not to know me, & conservatives who are scared of being associated with me.

They'd all rather I slipped away into obscurity, or just died, for my sins of being an angry naive teenager.

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jackbuckbyJack Buckby 🇬🇧🇺🇸@jackbuckby·
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I am treated much the same by radical progressives who hate me, moderate liberals who pretend not to know me, & conservatives who are scared of being associated with me.

They'd all rather I slipped away into obscurity, or just died, for my sins of being an angry naive teenager.

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jackbuckbyJack Buckby 🇬🇧🇺🇸@jackbuckby·
24 Jan

The sensationalist right is doing as much harm to the West's defence of the nation-state as the radical progressives.

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