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\nJonathon Pie: We’ve reached peak Nazi\u00a0(language warning)
\nFascist Vs Nazi
\nFascism\u00a0is a form of radical\u00a0authoritarian\u00a0ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society and of the economy, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.
\nNazism is a form of\u00a0fascism\u00a0and showed that ideology’s disdain for\u00a0liberal democracy\u00a0and the\u00a0parliamentary system, but also incorporated fervent\u00a0antisemitism,\u00a0scientific racism, and\u00a0eugenics\u00a0into its creed.
\n10:01 From the SMH:
\nEverything you need to know about Australia’s far right.
\nWhat a motley bunch of incels.
\nOn October 15, 2015, far-right kingpin Shermon Burgess posted his final video on the popular nationalist Facebook page, The Great Aussie Patriot.
\n\u201cG\u2019day patriots,\u201d he started. \u201cNow just letting you know what\u2019s going on. I\u2019m going to be handing full leadership of the United Patriots Front over to Blair Cottrell. I won\u2019t be doing it anymore.”
\nReclaim Australia \u2013 the series of rallies in 2015 that turned out thousands of anti-immigrant, anti-Islam \u201cpatriots\u201d \u2013 saw Cottrell as the next golden child. And so did Cottrell. One researcher says he views himself as the \u201csexy Fuhrer\u201d: a muscular, blond, articulate leader who has said Jews are \u201ca much deadlier enemy than the violent Islamic pillagers\u201d, and that to keep women in line you should \u201ccrack them around the ear every once in a while\u201d.
\nBut in his three-year tenure as de facto leader of Australia\u2019s far-right, the “sexy Fuhrer” has failed. The movement has dramatically weakened since its Reclaim Australia days \u2013 something that could have been predicted from watching Burgess\u2019 resignation video three years ago.
\n\u201cI won\u2019t be making videos and I\u2019m taking down my page,\u201d he said, before adding: \u201cNow it\u2019s not because of media, it\u2019s not because of death threats from Islam – even though I\u2019ve received many of those.
\n“It\u2019s because of the dumb f—ing patriots out there.\u201d
\nSince Reclaim Australia, the single biggest ideological clash in far-right circles has been whether to be pro or anti-Israel. Some nationalists celebrate Israel, believing it sets a precedent for the emergence of other single-ethnicity states, while others find more ammunition by blaming Jews for faults in the economy and media.
\nWhen it comes to Jews, Australia’s far-right hasn’t been able to keep it together. In the extensive field of far-right Facebook pages and groups, the big news at the end of last year was the clash between Neil Erikson and Avi Yemini. If Cottrell is Australia’s most well known nationalist, Erikson and Yemini are second and third. Erikson is a self-confessed “troll” who famously harassed former senator Sam Dastyari in a Melbourne pub in 2017, and Yemini is the most prominent member of the only far-right party to contest the recent Victoria state election, the Australian Liberty Alliance (which received 0.6 per cent of the upper house vote). He’s also Jewish.
\nOne result of the constant infighting is that since Reclaim Austral...","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}