How the far right weaponizes victimhood

Chouliaraki, Lilie ORCID: 0000-0002-5683-4691 and Bale, Joanna (2025) How the far right weaponizes victimhood. British Politics and Policy at LSE (22 Jan 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

From Nigel Farage’s claims about two-tier policing, to Elon Musk’s weaponization of the grooming gangs scandal, the far right portrays itself as a victim or as on the side of victims as a tool to promote its political ends. In this interview, Joanna Bale asks Lilie Chouliaraki about how her book “Wronged” exposes how this rhetoric of victimhood is used by the powerful to amass even more power.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	12 Feb 2025 16:03
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2025 16:03
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127263

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