South African vigilante group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members of the country’s most-prominent anti-migrant street movement.
It seems people everywhere have a strong tendency to deal with hardship by blaming some more or less arbitrary group and attacking them. It’s fuelling the rightward political lurch all around the world.
It’s an age old tradition, but it’s not and arbitrary group it’s always a minority group. Maybe it’s the Jews, maybe it’s a certain ethnicity, maybe it’s just a political ideology.
The easiest thing to rally people around is the excuse that it’s the outside group that’s ruining your country.
What kind of violence would you expect to happen on the left? Or are all negative actions come from the right for you?
How many societies are stringing up the owners of corporations and distributing their wealth? None, so left wing violence can’t be all that common. How many societies are mistreating immigrants, destroying social safety nets, and trying to overturn democratic elections in favor of authoritarians? Plenty, so you know the right wing is alive and well.
Lots.
At least you conceded graciously
You’re replying to something in your own mind, not in my comment.