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2017-12-17 Europe

European far-right leaders get together for anti-EU bid

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Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-17 00:30|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 The [Czech, anti-migrant] party wants to ban Islam, which it calls an ideology of hate. Its chairman, Tomio Okamura

Heh?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-17 02:42|| 2017-12-17 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 'Okamura' seems more likely to be an immigrant as opposed to migrant.

Posted by jpal 2017-12-17 09:16|| 2017-12-17 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 It's multiculturalism that opposed not multi-racialism.

What's the problem?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-12-17 10:41|| 2017-12-17 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The label "far-right" gets tossed around as insult and condemnation of any sort of nationalist party, but it is useful to remember that National Socialism was considered far-right. I think the simplified political scale in Europe looks like this:
Commies - Social Democrats - Far Right

Posted by SteveS 2017-12-17 15:22|| 2017-12-17 15:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Wikipedia:

Tomio Okamura (岡村富夫 Okamura Tomio, born 4 July 1972[1]) is a Czech–Japanese entrepreneur, writer and politician. He is the founder of the political parties Dawn of Direct Democracy and Freedom and Direct Democracy. Since October 2013, he has been a Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP), initially for Dawn of Direct Democracy and then from May 2015 for Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), of which he is also leader. He previously served as an independent Senator for Zlín district from October 2012 until his election to the Chamber of Deputies a year later.

Born in Tokyo to a half-Japanese, half-Korean father, and a Moravian mother from the Zlín region,[2] Okamura came to Czechoslovakia for the first time when he was six years old. He spent 10 years in Japan in total. He spent part of his childhood in a children's home in Mašťov near Podbořany where he experienced bullying, causing him to have a stutter until he was 20 years old.[citation needed]

In his youth he worked as a waste collector and later a popcorn seller at a cinema in Japan.[3] Okamura is fluent in Czech and Japanese.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-17 15:25|| 2017-12-17 15:25|| Front Page Top

#6 it is useful to remember that National Socialism was considered far-right.

Post-WWII, yes. But back in the 1930s-1945, the national socialist Nazis considered themselves as legitimately socialist as the international socialist Soviets (“commies). And for that matter, Geert Wilders and all the rest are as definitely of the socialist left economically as the various respectable labour socialist parties of Britain and Europe. But really, the definition of fascists of all sorts as “right wing” comes from Stalin — and he was correct that from the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist perspective, national socialism, which retains business owners so long as they do exactly as the government orders in every jot and tittle, is ever so slightly to the right of the Stalinist method, which directly replaced owners the owners with government functionaries.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-17 16:00|| 2017-12-17 16:00|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Real world is sure stranger than any fiction.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-17 16:24|| 2017-12-17 16:24|| Front Page Top

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