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Wow. If any of you think some of the so-called 'bleeding-heart liberal' posts on this thread are wrong-headed, you really have no idea. This person is seriously off their trolley, and a tweeter reckons that they have cropped the black guys from the photo in their clean-up-is-racist post.
This line jumps out:
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By the symbolic cleaning, cleansing and casting out of the rioters from the community, the sweepers appear to enact the closest thing to popular fascism that we have seen on the streets of certain ‘leafy’ bits of London for years.*
Right. If the guy was referring to the resemblance between the symbol of the clean-up, a broom, and the symbol of Italian fascism, the fasces, I can kind of see it. But I think the poster means that there is a resemblance between the clean-up & popular fascism, ie militaristic corporatism with a dash of heroic leadership (which is, basically, what Mussolini espoused). Struggling very hard to see that one.
I hate seeing the word 'fascism' or 'nazi' bandied about so cheaply.