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He's an emblem of free-market, white supremacist nationalism...
He has enabled the worst of society to push their way to to the front of the queue and demand that we listen to their nasty... maybe just maybe we should demand that those around us STOP it...
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What it means to 'bothsides': Bothsidesing and its related noun bothsidesism turn up in critiques of the news media when a journalist or pundit seems to give extra credence to a cause, action, or idea that on the surface seems objectionable, thereby establishing a sort of moral equivalence that allows said cause, action, or idea to be weighed seriously.
Heh. As Laurie Penny said
We need to try and stop the rot - not feeding the nasty by giving them a mainstream platform, seems a good place to start...
