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echelon_musk 3 days ago

> Elon Musk, who I assume you lionise based on your handle

It's a portmanteau of ECHELON [0] and Elon Musk. I've never cared for him, and especially not now that he is advancing fascist ideology.

To counter your point, it would depend on how you define extremism. If you want to define extremism as acts of violence then I can understand.

However there are plenty of fundamentalist/extremist views within the UK which exist regardless of what the right wing does.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

louthy 3 days ago | parent [-]

> it would depend on how you define extremism

I don't need to, the government already has widened the definition to include white supremacists and has a list of proscribed groups. This allows Prevent (the de-radicalisation programme that was originally set-up for Islamist terrorists and potential terrorists) to work on de-radicalising white supremacists too and for MI5 to focus some of its energy on preventing extremism and violence in the UK.

> However there are plenty of fundamentalist/extremist views within the UK which exist regardless of what the right wing does.

I am certainly not saying "right wing bad". I'm saying "far-right white supremacy bad". And probably "far-right bad" in general, just like I'd say "far-left bad". Extremism, in general, requires you to move away from compromise. Whether it's far-left or far-right, in my judgement it will always lead to conflict.