{"id":2125,"date":"2009-09-27T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/09\/27\/file_on_4_investigates_football_racists"},"modified":"2009-09-27T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T19:17:26","slug":"file_on_4_investigates_football_racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/09\/27\/file_on_4_investigates_football_racists","title":{"rendered":"File on 4 investigates football racists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - File on 4, 22\/09\/2009\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00mr4w5\">BBC &#8211; BBC Radio 4 Programmes &#8211; File on 4, 22\/09\/2009<\/a><\/p>\n<p>File on 4 investigates the football hooligan racists who have been going around causing trouble in various British cities.  They claim to be against &#8220;Muslim extremism&#8221;, but their chants include phrases distinctly offensive to any Muslims, &#8220;extremist&#8221; or otherwise, and people who have tried to sit down with them have concluded that they are not interested in debate.<\/p>\n<p>One qualm I have with recent coverage of these new anti-Muslim hooligan groups is the constant reference to &#8220;right-wing groups&#8221;.  Right-wing doesn&#8217;t mean much; it just means that they are the conservative element at any given time.  They may be pro- or anti-free market (in the 19th century, free marketeers were the liberals, while in the 1980s, they were on the right), pro- or anti-immigration, or whatever.  They are not politically sophisticated enough to be called right- or left-wing, anyway, and their views on the economy or healthcare or even immigration are irrelevant; what distinguishes them is being violent men who want to stir up Muslims and cause trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC &#8211; BBC Radio 4 Programmes &#8211; File on 4, 22\/09\/2009 File on 4 investigates the football hooligan racists who have been going around causing trouble in various British cities. They claim to be&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-far_right","category-racism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-yh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}