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Related: About this forumSurrender acts and lynch mobs: The real-life consequences of inflammatory language
Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically the EU is an attempt to do this by different methods
Boris Johnson, May 2016
Evoking dictatorship has become a habit for MPs on both sides of the Brexit debate. In the run-up to the referendum Johnson suggested the EU was pursuing the same goal as Hitler by attempting to build a European superstate, while Michael Gove compared Remain-backing economists to the Nazi scientists who denounced Albert Einstein in the 1930s (Gove later apologised). Two years later, Jeremy Hunt, then foreign secretary, compared the EU to the Soviet Union in a speech. In April 2019 the Labour MP and second referendum campaigner David Lammy defended his warning not to appease Tory MPs in the Eurosceptic European Research Group. I dont care how elected they are so was the far right in Germany, he told Andrew Marr in an interview.
These historical references seem to have rubbed off. The second referendum advocate Anna Soubry was showered with chants of Soubry is a Nazi by protesters earlier this year. On 27 September, after the Labour MP Jess Phillips tabled an urgent question in the Commons about inflammatory language, a man was arrested after he reportedly banged on the windows of her constituency office in Birmingham Yardley and shouted fascist.
Boris Johnson, May 2016
Evoking dictatorship has become a habit for MPs on both sides of the Brexit debate. In the run-up to the referendum Johnson suggested the EU was pursuing the same goal as Hitler by attempting to build a European superstate, while Michael Gove compared Remain-backing economists to the Nazi scientists who denounced Albert Einstein in the 1930s (Gove later apologised). Two years later, Jeremy Hunt, then foreign secretary, compared the EU to the Soviet Union in a speech. In April 2019 the Labour MP and second referendum campaigner David Lammy defended his warning not to appease Tory MPs in the Eurosceptic European Research Group. I dont care how elected they are so was the far right in Germany, he told Andrew Marr in an interview.
These historical references seem to have rubbed off. The second referendum advocate Anna Soubry was showered with chants of Soubry is a Nazi by protesters earlier this year. On 27 September, after the Labour MP Jess Phillips tabled an urgent question in the Commons about inflammatory language, a man was arrested after he reportedly banged on the windows of her constituency office in Birmingham Yardley and shouted fascist.
[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2019/10/surrender-acts-and-lynch-mobs-real-life-consequences-inflammatory-language|]
Many more examples at the link. It is a really stark warning in some ways. Leading by example and tempering ones language is no doubt the adult thing to do.... But the far right are bloody nazi's!
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Surrender acts and lynch mobs: The real-life consequences of inflammatory language (Original Post)
Soph0571
Oct 2019
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(7,188 posts)1. Meanwhile, in Scotland:
Police chief urges responsible language when discussing Brexit
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Speaking at the Scottish Parliament yesterday, Police Scotland deputy chief constable Will Kerr warned that some of the language being used was making it more difficult to police the environment.
It follows Prime Minister Boris Johnson being told by MPs to temper his language, having been condemned for comments including use of the term surrender act to refer to a law designed to prevent a No-Deal Brexit.
One of our biggest concerns is the unpredictability of the environment that we face at the moment in terms of the reaction of the public to rapidly evolving and rapidly changing events, Kerr told MSPs.
And in that rapidly changing environment, words and behaviour matter."
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17939902.police-chief-urges-responsible-language-discussing-brexit/
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Speaking at the Scottish Parliament yesterday, Police Scotland deputy chief constable Will Kerr warned that some of the language being used was making it more difficult to police the environment.
It follows Prime Minister Boris Johnson being told by MPs to temper his language, having been condemned for comments including use of the term surrender act to refer to a law designed to prevent a No-Deal Brexit.
One of our biggest concerns is the unpredictability of the environment that we face at the moment in terms of the reaction of the public to rapidly evolving and rapidly changing events, Kerr told MSPs.
And in that rapidly changing environment, words and behaviour matter."
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17939902.police-chief-urges-responsible-language-discussing-brexit/