Michael van der Galien has an interesting op-ed in the conservative Dutch website, Dagelijkse Standaard. Van der Galien reports that today's edition of De Standaard (Belgium) has an op-ed by Annelien De Rijn in which she makes the preposterous statement that it doesn't matter whether a right-wing politician or party is fascist or not. She and her ilk must continue calling them that to emphasize their distaste for their ideas. The tactic should come as no surprise. What is noteworthy here is that De Rijn openly acknowledges and justifies the tactic of falsely calling someone a fascist.
I wanted to translate the original article by De Rijn, but the newspaper has a subscriber wall on that op-ed. The Dutch-language article appears to have been prompted by the electoral victory of the new Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. At any rate, the below reaction from the Netherlands is translated by Fousesquawk.
The raunchy hypocrisy of the quality newspapers: "The right isn't fascist, but we have to call them that!"
October 8, 2022 at 15:22 (Foreign)
By Michael van der Galien
The Belgian quality newspaper-cough, ahem, sneeze-the Standaard has published an article in which it is explained why rightist politicians must be called "fascist" by default while they are clearly not at all.
Writing in today's Standaard, Annelien De Rijn explains why this word is especially useful.
Are radical-right politicians fascists?, she actually asks her readers (as summarized in the introduction to her piece). "Maybe not." But that's not so important." The term helps to emphasize our distaste for their ideas."And that is all that matters.
Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) (party member) Sam van Rooy is rightly provoked to react here. "For this, you have to read a 'quality newspaper', he writes. "This really says it! Whether a politician or a party is really fascist really doesn't matter. As long as you want to warn about fascism, you can gratuitously slander politicians and parties with this weighted term."
Naturally, you might think: Ah! That is in Belgium. What does that matter to us?
But that is the entire problem. Because almost all "Quality newspapers" (Ha Ha) in our country are in the hands of Belgian media conglomerates. This raunchy left morality is thus, exported to our country by the Belgians....which explains why all the leftist parties and newspapers systematically call parties like FVD (Forum for Democracy) and the PVV (Party for Freedom), and broadcasters like Omroep ON! and websites like DDS (Dagelijke Standaard) "fascist" or '"racist". They know better. Only it (works) so well.
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