| starcraft said: But it is just this sort of intolerance of discussion and opinion from the liberal media (who ironically are meant to be most in favour of tolerance of expression) that has led to right wing groups feeling marginalized, the first stage in the emergence of people like Anders Behrin Breivik. |
Great post
My essay to get into Uni was about this, I got praised by the review board. (and my uni was wildly international and pluricultural)
I made a parallel between the anti LePen (right wing xenophobic politician) protests and the way the media interviewed people saying "how could you be voting for him?" "what happened for you to vote him?" "portrait of the people who resulted to voting him as a last resor".... so very biased, to the KKK marches in the 60ies that were shieled from the crowd by black students who were asking for tolerance and freedom of speech for all.
The media made such a scene on this that, yes, many people came to vote.... but LePen got less votes than on the first round (first round is between X number of candidates and the second round is between the top 2 candidates... so in all logic, they can only have more votes).... the media effectively made people ashamed of expressing their democratic choice.
I voted Chirac on the first round to make sure he was in the second round (would have voted an other guy but that was the smart vote).... I was so disgusted by the media that I ended up voting LePen as a contestation vote on the second round (that and I was sure Chirac would win, he ended with 82% votes). I was actually in the debalotting team at the voting station... people were literally cursing at each vote LePen got.... very democratic process... I'm pretty sure some votes got switched in some small towns ^^.
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