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Re:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right? by RGamma on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:19AM (#11760563)
So? Doesn't mean they plan a genocide or aggressive expansionist policies... Japan has been doing something similar for years, only there it's apparently not called "right-wing politics"
Re:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right? by bovermyer on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:41AM (#11760695)
"Right-wing identity politics" does not automatically equate to genocide or expansionism. However, historically, nationalistic states usually exhibit a widespread "if you're not one of us, then you're at best a nuisance" attitude. Mid-20th-century Germany, Japan, and Italy are just the most obvious examples.
Re:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right? by kristopolous on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:30AM (#11760632)
Lebensraum was about unifying a diaspora of German speaking people into one collective country.

These people want racially based geopolitical partitioning. The ones with a diaspora and victimhood narrative certainly advocate for an aggressive "homeland of the x people" where racist law keeps it that way.

Re:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right? by emp_zealoth on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:07AM (#11761205)
TOOT-TOOT! Fact-checking police: (...)Lebensraum was an ideological element of Nazism, which advocated Germany's territorial expansion into Eastern Europe(...) As the very name says - "living space"
Re:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right? by kristopolous on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:14AM (#11761648)
You seem to be correct!

My mistake! I know what I described was a Nazi policy but after reading wikipedia, Lebensraum wasn't the name of it.

Thank you for the education and correction

Re:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right? by vidarh on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:28AM (#11760616)
Since when was planning genocide a pre-requisite to be considered right-wing?
Re:How Far Is Europe Swinging to the Right? by m_fayer on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @07:31AM (#11760641)
We're not talking about possible genocide or expansionism, I was simply responding to:

> The "moving to the right" analysis is wrong both in Europa and in the US.

As for Japan, Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party are widely regarded as nationalist/center-right/right both within Japan and without. There's nothing controversial about this characterisation.