Why don’t the media find virulent, vile abuse on right-wing sites? Answer: they don’t bother to look.
To assist the mainstream media, the author has “compiled a selection of online hate for them, most of which I gathered in less than an hour by searching Conservative affiliated pages, and putting out a call on twitter”.
Online Hate Exists On The political Right – If The Media Cared To Look
I’ve been a member of numerous Corbyn supporting Facebook groups for several years. In all that time I have not seen one threatening, anti-semitic or racist remark. So how have I missed all the virulent, vile abuse making the headlines at the moment? I’m not saying it doesn’t exist, and I condemn it where it does, but it’s definitely no where near as prevalent as is being implied by a media hell bent on beating Corbyn with any sticks they can lay their hands on, even if the stick is really just a twig. The reason their anti-Corbyn agenda is never called into question is because they all share it. Even the so called left wing papers are no fans of Corbyn. But as a Corbyn supporter it’s transparent. Why else do they shine a whopping great spotlight on left wing abuse whilst turning a completely blind eye to any abuse that stems from the right of politics, even when it stems from Conservative Party supporters? To help prize open their squeezed shut eyes, I have compiled a selection of online hate for them, most of which I gathered in less than an hour by searching Conservative affiliated pages, and putting out a call on twitter. I’m no investigative journalist, but I didn’t need to be for this piece. The online hate, ranging between Islamophobia, anti-semitism, misogyny, racism, transphobia, homophobia and sheer hatred toward Corbyn, was very easy to find. And it would be easy for the media to find too, if they cared to look. But sadly they don’t.
Click here and just scroll down and down to see page after page of abusive right-wing blog posts…
I think we need to give readers a health warning on this. It is quite disgusting and as Chelleryn says, appalling that not one journalist has bothered to pay a fraction of attention they have paid to alleged pro-Corbyn social media to the platforms populated by rightwingers.