Polarisation and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL).
It’s always a source of amusement to me that someone comes up with such tortuous organisational names just to fit the acronym that they have already thought of.
Linda Hutchinson
2 years ago
I’m not for one moment saying that this person was anything put a violent racist, but why did he turn to real life violence instead of just words? Who knows – probably nothing to do with all the negative press aimed at white men. then??
Yes, disturbingly enough, that’s absolutely what he did.
Saul D
2 years ago
These groups and individuals are funded purely to make this sort of hay when ‘events’ happen. It’s like the ‘X not Hate’ groups – there are lots of them. But when an ‘event’ happens, where do the journalists turn for ‘expert’ opinion? Ta Da. Expert corner. They’re funded specifically to jump in as spokespeople on a particular narrative by certain interest groups – have a look at who finances them – to be the jack-in-the-box response when something happens, as it invariably will.
J Bryant
1 year ago
There’s enormous truth in the theory of elite overproduction, imo. So many otherwise unemployable graduates are entering the grievance industry and making a nice living from it. Ultimately, a society that does not generate meaningful jobs for its young must provide something else if societal collapse is to be avoided.
Whereupon said unemployable graduates get busy bringing about said societal collapse.
As an aside, the Guardian et al. are keen to try and persuade us that it’s all in our heads. Right wing scaremongering and nothing more. It would seem that, having carped about the supposed gaslighting behaviour of others for years, they have acquired both a facility and a taste for indulging in it themselves.
Julian Pellatt
1 year ago
The so-called (official) ‘experts’ are problematic – certainly. But more worrying is the hidden myriad of nonentities in our workplaces, communities and education establishments who are purveyors of woke policies and practices, on whom the madness that infects 21st Century democracy depends. The ‘experts’ are visible and therefore challengeable; the street-level wokes amongst us are not!
Polarisation and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL).
It’s always a source of amusement to me that someone comes up with such tortuous organisational names just to fit the acronym that they have already thought of.
I’m not for one moment saying that this person was anything put a violent racist, but why did he turn to real life violence instead of just words? Who knows – probably nothing to do with all the negative press aimed at white men. then??
Well said!
What about that recent Norwegian nutter?
That was quite a while back.
He quite literally wrote his reasons down
Yes, disturbingly enough, that’s absolutely what he did.
These groups and individuals are funded purely to make this sort of hay when ‘events’ happen. It’s like the ‘X not Hate’ groups – there are lots of them. But when an ‘event’ happens, where do the journalists turn for ‘expert’ opinion? Ta Da. Expert corner. They’re funded specifically to jump in as spokespeople on a particular narrative by certain interest groups – have a look at who finances them – to be the jack-in-the-box response when something happens, as it invariably will.
There’s enormous truth in the theory of elite overproduction, imo. So many otherwise unemployable graduates are entering the grievance industry and making a nice living from it. Ultimately, a society that does not generate meaningful jobs for its young must provide something else if societal collapse is to be avoided.
Whereupon said unemployable graduates get busy bringing about said societal collapse.
As an aside, the Guardian et al. are keen to try and persuade us that it’s all in our heads. Right wing scaremongering and nothing more. It would seem that, having carped about the supposed gaslighting behaviour of others for years, they have acquired both a facility and a taste for indulging in it themselves.
The so-called (official) ‘experts’ are problematic – certainly. But more worrying is the hidden myriad of nonentities in our workplaces, communities and education establishments who are purveyors of woke policies and practices, on whom the madness that infects 21st Century democracy depends. The ‘experts’ are visible and therefore challengeable; the street-level wokes amongst us are not!