Olie Martin's Blog.

Rightists and new media, in brief. | May 19, 2010

Disclaimer: The views in the first few paragraphs are not my own!

It is a cold, dark and gloomy day in Britain. Pedophiles lurk on every corner, preying on your children. Countless immigrants shack up together in huge houses, funded by the British tax-payer. Labour want to take all of our money and give it to those greedy foreigners; don’t even get us started on the proper socialists. Terrorists are running free in our nations, plotting to kill us every day. Even your local Morrisons is at risk.

This is the world according to the right-wing media.

None of us are safe. The only way forward is for us to close our borders, deport ethnic minorities and carry on happily as a country of hard working, white British tax-payers. Henceforth with the glory of the free-market, let your St. George’s flags hang high and proud.

I forgot to mention; kill the pedos.

Obviously, when we look at it this way, we find ourselves imagining a world completely different from the one that we live in. How often do you encounter a pedophile, terrorist or massive family of greedy immigrants? Our society is drifting into the depths of paranoid xenophobia, more and more as each day passes. We are conditioned by the media machine; if the right-wing media is analyzed as an entity, then it is a genius of manipulation, that conditions its subjects and turns them into a vicious hate-machine. A hate machine that manifests itself in “organizations” such as the EDL, the BNP and all of the other right-wing forces in this country.

During the Christmas period of last year, facebook presented itself as a brilliant revolutionary force. A force that was able to mobilize people. It turned the people against the x-factor’s monopoly on the UK chart; instead, it turned the people to buy the excellent Rage Against the Machine song that ended up as the X-mas number one. This was a completely revolutionary phenomenon that displayed the incredible power of the new media. Now we can see how this fantastic force is used by the right-wing to manipulate the people into mass-xenophobic and racist action. The influence of the right-wing on mainstream media has conditioned the masses into drawing racist and nationalist conclusions; now the right-wing has taken advantage of this. What we are seeing is the forces of mass-communication being used to incite racial hatred and xenophobia; a manipulation of the anxieties felt by people, thanks to the conditioning of the right-wing media.

What I am saying is this; the new media has an incredible capability, it can mobilize the masses and influence them in a revolutionary manner. However, this capability has been exploited by the right-wing media; we can see from recent nationalistic campaigns on facebook, that the power of new media is one that is being exploited by the right-wing.

I have to cut this analysis here. The question that now lingers in my mind is this; what has to be done?