Report on a fascist organisation in the UK calling for Civil War

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Blatantly violent racist rhetoric in Peter Whittle's "New Culture Forum" YouTube comments section to "UK Civil War" video - Lemmy

The New Culture Forum (NCF) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Whittle_(politician)#New_Culture_Forum] is a think tank founded by nationalist UKIP politician Peter Whittle. The video [https://youtu.be/eOR8NhL09JQ] in question is an interview with KCL war and โ€œfortificationsโ€ specialist David Betz [https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-david-j-betz], who forecasts civil war outbreaks in [https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/civil-war-comes-to-the-west/] the Western world, and praises Hungary as an island of sanity [https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/interview/hungary_-stupid-wars_west-russia-ukraine_peace_david-betz_interview/]. The amount of racist violent rhetoric in the comments is disturbing, and the chosen topic of a civil war, is not a good look for the supporters of these ideas. Long story short, there are numerous people in the comments seething to shed blood because they donโ€™t like seeing brown people in their midst. The comments echo the aftermath of the widespread far-right anti-immigrant riots last August in England and Northern Ireland. The comment section reeks of the white supremacist Great Replacement theory. Whittleโ€™s NCF seems to be embedded in an ecosystem of consent manufacturing right-wing, fossil fuel lobbying think tanks [https://web.archive.org/web/20250310124059/https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/10/i-spent-3-days-at-jordan-petersons-anti-climate-arc-conference-heres-what-i-saw/], active in the UK, and linked to conservative politicians. For context, it was recently [https://www.ft.com/content/d7cbb26a-57b8-4fd5-ac5b-00de25d53a0e] reported that Musk showed an interest to interfere in [https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/musk-says-farage-should-step-down-leader-reform-uk-2025-01-05/] British far-right politics. We can at least conclude that there are some powerful consent manufacturing apparatuses at play in England, and an invigorated far-right dynamic and anti-immigrant sentiment. This is some scary stuff. Shady actors like these do not pour their money in a Western democracy for no good reason, and it is only plausible that some shit is going down in a country where the political weaponization [https://www.nbcnews.com/video/u-k-using-trans-people-as-political-weapon-says-scotland-s-first-minister-160021573789] of trans people by the conservative party, has led to an early implementation of the anti-transgender health policy legislation [https://ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/whats-wrong-with-the-cass-review-a-round-up-of-commentary-and-evidence/] now considered central in the US fascist [https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-genocidal-nature-of-the-gender-critical-movement%E2%80%99s-ideology-and-practice] takeover.