The far right in our modern time

In the liminal time such as crisis and wars the far-right political parties use the scapegoating mechanism to create a schismogenic process which can lead a community to a liminality and create new forms of schismogenesis such as dislike, violence and hate. During the last few decades, we could witness how the far-right employed the media, particularly the social media, to form the public sphere. Recently, the far right could occupy more political stages and were able to easily form the public sphere after the rise of asylum seekers and refugees coming from the war zones, particularly the Middle East.
Drawing on Turner’s concept of liminality and Bateson’s concept of schismogenesis and employing Girards’s scapegoating mechanism, this chapter explores how the far right in Europe, particularly in Ireland, spread racism through various forms of media, which, in turn, undermine social justice.