Extremism experts are starting to worry about the left

Drew_TNBD

http://archive.is/1vRIU

Fairly reasonable article.

TheBlueWolf

It's the flip side of a shit dipped coin. I've encountered several extreme lefties and, while their specific beliefs differ from the extreme right, their tactics are similar. 

Legionreturns

If you haven't watched "Brain Dead" the series... 

Sporky

Page never loads for me. The idea doesn't surprise me though; there are nutjobs smeared right across the political spectrum/compass/tesseract.

Emp_Fab

I worry about the extreme left and the extreme right, but those extreme centrists are the real danger.

chillidoggy

Hipsters are the ones to worry about.

Bridgehouse

Would an extreme mechanic be a top dead centreist?

ICBM

Anyone who thinks extreme-left terrorists (or at least extremists claiming far-left ideology) aren't an issue isn't old enough to remember the 1970s...

fretmeister

"Starting to worry"

id be amazed if they ever stopped worrying.

Freebird

Lock her up!

HAL9000

I'd put extremists or fundamentalists of any persuasion into Room 101. All f#@kwits.

Bridgehouse

HAL9000 said:

I'd put extremists or fundamentalists of any persuasion into Room 101. All f#@kwits.

I'm a P bass fundamentalist - do I get locked up?

fields5069

It's like a game of "I'm a sociopath, I'm a sociopath, what type of sociopath am I?". Although I would suggest that there are more on the right than the left.

HAL9000

Bridgehouse said:

HAL9000 said:

I'd put extremists or fundamentalists of any persuasion into Room 101. All f#@kwits.

I'm a P bass fundamentalist - do I get locked up?

Yup. Why not?

Sporky

Emp_Fab said:

those extreme centrists are the real danger.

Nothing more dangerous than chaotic neutral.

Bridgehouse

HAL9000 said:

Bridgehouse said:

HAL9000 said:

I'd put extremists or fundamentalists of any persuasion into Room 101. All f#@kwits.

I'm a P bass fundamentalist - do I get locked up?

Yup. Why not?

Just so long as those stingray fundamentalists are locked up too

Sporky

Bridgehouse said:

Just so long as those stingray fundamentalists are locked up too

Good luck with that. We've got Ampegs and we're not afraid to use them.

Bridgehouse

Sporky said:

Bridgehouse said:

Just so long as those stingray fundamentalists are locked up too

Good luck with that. We've got Ampegs and we're not afraid to use them.

Lol. Like the one true faith weren't playing through ampegs when your stingrays were still growing in the forests...

Teyeplayer

ICBM said:

Anyone who thinks extreme-left terrorists (or at least extremists claiming far-left ideology) aren't an issue isn't old enough to remember the 1970s...

Totally agree with this in terms of there being extremists at all ends of the political spectrum.

However, as a teacher and someone on the receiving end of the governments prevent training, I couldn't help but note as my colleagues did, that anyone that had a moderately left-wing or republican view in the uk was considered a 'potential' extremist and should be 'reported'.

It goes to figure that the issue is any viewpoint that does not follow the status quo, regardless of right, left or religious persuasion.

Edit: Just a thought that came to me after posting this: the Manics sang 'We are all bourgeois now' although in reality it should have perhaps been 'We are all extremists now' (which accounts for pretty much everything from my religious right parents to our republican Labour leader)?

richardhomer

chillidoggy said:

Hipsters are the ones to worry about.

Agreed. Saw some twat with a beard and lumberjack shirt riding a unicycle through Chorlton earlier. Bastard....

thermionic

ICBM said:

Anyone who thinks extreme-left terrorists (or at least extremists claiming far-left ideology) aren't an issue isn't old enough to remember the 1970s...

Ah yes, back in the old days, terrorists were the good guys!