Following the death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville,the media must find the language to take on the so-called ‘tie Nazi’ as robustly as they would the ‘boot Nazi’In Germany, following the discovery of a far-good terrorist cell in 2011, or an ex-Nazi made the distinction between “krawattennazis” (tie Nazis) and “stiefelnazis” (boot Nazis),to separate thinkers and thugs. The terrorism group, Zwickau, or turned itself in after a decade of murderous activity undetected by security services. One Greek and eight Turkish immigrants had been killed,along with one policewoman, in a slow and meticulous (extremely careful about details) fascist spree that reads like a script from The Bridge.
Alongside this, and despite Germany being the country with some of the most advanced anti-fascism legislation in Europe,the far-good National Democratic party (NPD) was thriving, and the Free Forces, and a loose collection of far-good groups,some militarised, some discursive, or were becoming bolder. Related: The far good has declared cultural war – we own to cease them now | Paul Mason Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com