The Daily Mail’s far-right fascist racism
During the French presidential election of April 2012, the Daily Mail’s Richard Waghorne wrote a column supporting the candidacy of the far-right French National Front’s Marine Le Pen. The daughter of open Nazi sympathizer and antisemitic Holocaust denier Jean-Marie, who himself bemoans the influence of “Jewish organizations” and denies that non-white footballers in French national football team are truly French, and describes his daughter as “passing the baton” of his ideas. Though Waghorne supposedly disowns the extreme racist fascism of the NF and Le Pens, he still justifies his endorsement based upon as “an imperfect choice in urgent times, the only candidate capable of saving France’s control over her finances, borders, and identity.” This is evasive and revisionist language easily on par with the rhetoric of British National Party leader Nick Griffin. The French NF are part of the same party grouping in the European parliament as the BNP. Why don’t the Daily Mail support the BNP based upon the same reasoning of them being a “reformed” far-right fascist party with the same agreeable priorities? Nicholas Sarkozy (ironically described as “the foreigner” by Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2007 for his Jewish ancestry) was keen to pander to the fascist segment of the voting population in his unsuccessful reelection campaign, by describing France as having “too many foreigners”, and warning against the threat of immigrant “invaders” if Francois Hollande was elected to the presidency. Sadly, it appears that President Hollande, who was once thought as beholding values in line with social justice, is just as keen to pander to racial hatred for political gain as Sarkozy.
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