Thursday, April 21, 2005
"Extremism breeds extremism" posted by Richard Seymour
Joint appeal for calm, my ass. Here's a snippet from the Beeb's account of last night's hustings:Miss King said: "I utterly condemn any attacks on George Galloway, or any other politician, and indeed just the general atmosphere of intimidation.
"I have to say it has not been helped by some of the language used by Respect. Extremism breeds extremism."
I'd be interested to know what kind of "language" Ms King has in mind. Perhaps she reads my blog. But she obviously isn't referring to libels , since she is the chief purveyor of those in this campaign. She can't be referring to obloquy in general, since it is her campaign that is firing out slurs and false allegations at an astonishing pace.
So, what is this 'language', unique to the Respect campaign, that is encouraging 'intimidation'? I'd say that comparing someone to a dead fascist is inflammatory to say the least, so it has to be something worse than that. Any takers?