• @parpol@programming.dev
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    -45 months ago

    None of these things have anything to do with left or right leaning. Being racist does not make you far-right, and individuals do not represent the party as a whole. If they did, every party in Sweden would be considered far-right.

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    Jörgen Fogelklou, had posted antisemitic and racist statements on social media,

    As far as I know, this was never proven to be him, as it was comments on some account on Flashback.

    one party member in southern Sweden, Jonas Lingren

    “One party member” that no one has ever heard of does not represent the entire party. You have several “one party member” people with controversal music tastes and ideologies in any party.

    • Luke
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      65 months ago

      Being racist does not make you far-right

      Being openly racist absolutely does mean being right wing. What else would it mean? That’s the main platform the right has, they just bury it under euphemisms and pretend it doesn’t exist. The ones who are too stupid to obfuscate their racist remarks are the far-right.

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        5 months ago

        Being right means being capitalistic or conservative. Less welfare, less public projects, more business oriented, more keeping the status quo.

        Being racist is not a quality of being right-leaning. Surely you’re confusing the political spectrum with what kind of people tend to lean towards what. Calling someone racist for being right-leaning, or calling someone far-right for being racist is an association fallacy.

        Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to be racist and socialist at the same time.

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          5 months ago

          We weren’t discussing a left wing party here, it’s a right wing party that you said wasn’t far-right because of their openly stated racism. I could have been clearer in my response, but I’m saying that by being openly racist (and by maintaining relationships with members who are openly racist), this right wing party is far-right.

          You are correct though about the actual distinction between leftism and rightism being support for capitalism, thank you for clarifying that.