What Does Being Far Right Mean

[Judi Lynn]

How Bolsonaro is politically classified in the international press and in Brazilian newspapers
Oct.14.2018 4:00AM

Paula Cesarino Costa
SÃO PAULO
Some people say that there is no sense in trying to split the world between left and right wings. What do these concepts even mean nowadays? It's a politically complex topic. However, the clash between left and right is a worldwide phenomenon. In Brazil, petism and antipetism (being for or against PT, or Worker's Party) is our local flavor of this clash, although it can't be exactly considered as a right versus left issue.

When it comes to journalism, Folha has been receiving criticism from a portion of its readers that say that the newspaper is avoiding calling things by their names. Case in point, saying that the PSL presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, is from the far right.

In early October, two months after the presidential campaign officially started, Folha's managing editors released an internal memorandum saying that in the current Brazilian election cycle, no candidate that could be qualified as "far right" or "far left". The memo recalls an entry from Folha's stylebook, which reserves the use of these terms to refer to "factions that practice or preach violence as a political method." The memo guides the newsroom to call Jair Bolsonaro, from PSL, as a right-wing candidate, while Guilherme Boulos (PSOL), that didn't make it to the runoff, a left-wing candidate.

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Many of the most important newspapers abroad, that make an undeniably good journalism, are using variations of the far right concept (ultraderecha, extrême droite) to define Bolsonaro's candidacy. They are The Economist, Financial Times, The Guardian, El País, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Le Monde, Clarín, La Nacion, among others.

More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/ombudsman/2018/10/what-does-being-far-right-mean.shtml

[pretzel4gore]

1. Privilege of the few

against the Needs of the many, rightwing privilege leftwing need, as basic as that. Using words like 'conservative' or liberal confuses the issue whuch is why the rightwing and their media do it. It has worked for generations (working people calling themselves conservative etc)
A nations true wealth is public property, emperor's etcs are private interest