When anti-asylum demos have so much assistance from the mainstream, a smarter, extra tailored message is required
David Renton is the author of The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right
Earlier this month, I assisted organise a protest to safeguard the evacuees holed up at the Thistle City Barbican resort in London. We mobilised 800 people to sustain the asylum hunters, who waved back at us from the hotel to reveal their gratitude. Beyond of the roadway, about 250 people had collected to demand the resort be shut. Speakers there called evacuees “unlawful”, “intruders” and “bloodsuckers”.
Seeing and hearing our challengers, the anti-racists responded with a spontaneous incantation of “Nazi residue, off our roads”, which our side was able to maintain for greater than an hour. I understand why individuals intended to reveal their ridicule for individuals who inform lies about evacuees, yet the incantation didn’t strike me as reliable when I heard it, and the much more I have actually considered it because, the extra convinced I am that it was the incorrect approach.
Source: The Guardian