Annelotte Janse
@annelottejanse.bsky.social
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Dr. | Historian of German, European, and transnational far-right extremism since 1945 | Currently also helping teachers discuss disruptive events with their pupils @ TerInfo, Utrecht University https://www.uu.nl/staff/JCJanse
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annelottejanse.bsky.social
Hi new followers! I use this account to stay updated on all things far-right, past and present. In August ‘24, I defended my dissertation ‘The Pursuit of White Security’. In it, I show that the fantasies of ‘white security’ fueling recent right-wing terrorist attacks are anything but new.
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maargentino.com
It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"

www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
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casmudde.bsky.social
Just days after a far-right majority in the Dutch parliament asked the government to designate “Antifa” as a “terrorist organization”, far-right “protesters” shows yet again that they are the real threat to public order in the Netherlands.
Anti-immigratie-demonstratie Den Haag escaleert, confrontatie met politie
De actievoerders steken vuurwerk af en zwaaien met Nederlandse vlaggen maar ook met prinsenvlaggen.
nos.nl
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leoniedejonge.bsky.social
Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets.
nos.nl/artikel/2583...
Anti-immigratie-demonstratie Den Haag escaleert, confrontatie met politie
De actievoerders steken vuurwerk af en zwaaien met Nederlandse vlaggen maar ook met prinsenvlaggen.
nos.nl
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sldelange.bsky.social
Verdachte was volgens de Luxemburgse krant Le Quotidien lid van de neonazistische, paramilitaire groep The Base, koesterde ‘haat tegen vrouwen, mensen van kleur, homoseksuelen, buitenlanders en mensen met een andere religie dan hijzelf’, en beschreef zichzelf als een ‘goede Ariër’.
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sechistnetwork.bsky.social
🌍 Benieuwd naar de oorsprong van de moderne wereldorde? Op 12 juni spreekt @benjaminduerr.com over vrede, recht & de idealen van toen en nu.
📍 Drift 25, zaal 102
🕓 16:00–17:30
🍻 Borrel bij Café Hofman
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ardenthistorian.bsky.social
It was never about sports, about „protecting women“, about bathrooms. It was always about criminalising the existence of trans people. About making them disappear from public spaces. Forcing them back in the closet or into despair and death. It’s about eradication.
esqueer.net
I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence.

This is a campaign of eradication.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...
"A screenshot of an NBC News article headline. The headline reads: 'Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail.' Below the headline, a subtext states: 'The bill, while unlikely to pass, highlights the increasing extremism of legislation targeting trans people, especially in Texas, in recent years.' The NBC News logo is visible at the top, along with a navigation bar that includes a 'WATCH' button and a user profile icon."
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grahammacklin.bsky.social
Nazi items found at home of Austrian parliament speaker's aide. René Schimanek, chief of staff to Parliament Speaker Walter Rosenkranz of the far-right Freedom Party, resigns following intense public pressure.
Nazi items found at home of Austrian parliament speaker's aide
René Schimanek, chief of staff to Parliament Speaker Walter Rosenkranz of the far-right Freedom Party, resigns following intense public pressure.
www.israelhayom.com
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awkword.bsky.social
Antifa isn’t real, but this list is

by yours truly

with support from @oldsquida.bsky.social
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valentimvicente.bsky.social
Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social .

We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric.

Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric.

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Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.
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kai-arzheimer.com
#Germany's federal criminal police office, not exactly known for over-counting such things, reports that at least 41,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist motive were committed in 2024, a 1/3 increase compared to 2023. 2023, with a 23% increase on 2022, had already marked an all-time high #farright
Rekord rechtsextremer Straftaten: „Erschreckender Aufwärtstrend“
Rechtsextreme Straftaten erreichen neuen Höchststand: mehr als 40.000 Delikte. Das zeigt eine Anfrage von Bundestagsvizepräsidentin Petra Pau (Linke).
taz.de
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lottejensen.bsky.social
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Content- en communitycoördinator
Ben jij een enthousiaste, avontuurlijke en proactieve contentcoördinator die weet hoe je een community bouwt? Dan hebben we jou nodig!
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valentimvicente.bsky.social
On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens.

It includes links to references, from my work and that of others.

I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work.

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casmudde.bsky.social
No country is immune to the far right.

No country is immune to the normalization of the far right.
annelottejanse.bsky.social
Can the EU stop Musk?

‘Only one institution on the planet is large enough and powerful enough to write and enforce laws that could make the tech companies change their policies. (…) But for how much longer will the EU have this authority?’

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Europe’s Elon Musk Problem
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
www.theatlantic.com
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andrewlseidel.bsky.social
If you need a starter pack on Christian Nationalism, I've got you covered. Here are some of the people and groups tracking, studying, fighting, and educating about Christian Nationalism in the United States.

go.bsky.app/QHLh3qS
I know I'm missing folks, so hit me up with recs!
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leoniedejonge.bsky.social
🔥 Vanaf deze week mag ik het stokje overnemen van @bastiaanrijpkema.bsky.social als politiek columnist bij @groene.nl, afwisselend met de geweldige @merijnoudenampsen.org en @tamardewaal.bsky.social. Mijn eerste bijdrage, over de regeringsdeelname van radicaal rechts, staat nu online!
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sldelange.bsky.social
There are few countries that had a firewall to begin with, most countries had opportunistic politicians on the right. Already documented this in my 2012 article that studied the government participation of the radical right in the first decade of the 21st century journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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milleridriss.bsky.social
action, dog whistles, & perceived championing of hate. In the absence of statements that denounce or explain the meaning, silence gets read as approval, agreement, support. We need mainstream media to say that, to denounce even the perception of a Nazi salute as acceptable.
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milleridriss.bsky.social
Here’s the thing. We will never know the story of what Musk meant here, just like we will never know whether Trump meant anything by “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.” What we do know is how these things are received by the fringe- as legitimation, call to 1/

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally
Tech billionaire wades into controversy after shooting right arm on upwards diagonal during celebrations of Trump
www.theguardian.com
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wi-rex.bsky.social
In a special issue of the Berkeley Journal of Rightwing Studies, edited by @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and @burscott.bsky.social, Wi-REX team member @jamannahoj.bsky.social (@efbisachsen.bsky.social) explores the allure of post-heroism in far-right memes: escholarship.org/uc/jrws/2/2
#memes #trump
Journal of Right-Wing Studies
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