If you’d like to see what a radicalised white, middle class white man looks like, here’s a few recent posts from my dad’s Facebook timeline. Short thread coming up...

When I was growing up my folks were like the nice couple from the Good Life.

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We had ducks & goats & chickens & my folks were fairly self-sufficient with a couple of acres and lots of room for growing all we needed. My parents brought me up to be open minded, tolerant & to be fiercely anti-racist. My dad’s parents came from mining stock

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...but my dad worked his way up to managerial level & retired at 50 with index linked pensions, no mortgage & a very comfortable retirement ahead of him. And then Brexit happened.

In the midst of Brexit my dad in particular became very quickly radicalised

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...by Nigel Farage & by the Leave EU campaign, who somehow convinced him that he was one of the so-called-oppressed “Silent Majority” & that his future lay with adopting a nostalgia ridden, Bistoland, Little England vision of what the U.K. ought to be

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and my dad fell for it, hook, line & sinker. Since then, it’s all gone down hill and what’s left of my dad is a chewed-up, intellectually shrivelled and brainwashed version of someone I once had infinite love & respect for. He’s not only become a xenophobic

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he’s now a racist xenophobe to boot. People tend to think that political radicalisation & reprogramming happens to Islamic extremists or extreme far-right gun nuts in the USA, but that’s just not true & that’s exactly why the likes of Nigel Farage are so f*cking dangerous.
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