He uses scaremongering phrases such as "mass immigration" and "population replacement" — a reference to the title of a 2012 book by right-wing French polemicist Renaud Camus, "The Great Replacement". In his book, Camus writes that Europe's white majority may eventually be replaced by immigrants from North Africa and elsewhere.
See articleIn this section Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon ReprintsThe Indian authorities cracked down on social-networking sites they say are being used for scaremongering.
A number of representatives of pro-automation companies and advocacy groups I spoke with used words like "scaremongering" to describe a spate of recent reports that have raised alarm around the role of robotics in job loss.
"Police countermeasures are increasingly brutal, and the situation in Syria and Libya is being used for scaremongering and to convince people peaceful change is impossible," says Ryadi.
Now, the same dismissive language of "scaremongering" is used to shut down concerns about the threat that border will pose to peace and to prosperity.
Theresa May was under fire from all sides today as a senior DUP politician branded Ireland's premier "vile" and accused him of using terrorist victims to scaremonger over Brexit.
"So I contend that it is far from scaremongering to use the term Balkanisation to predict what might happen if Scotland were to break from its 300-year-old union," he said.
There have undoubtedly been some green campaigners guilty of using junk science to scaremonger on these issues, but the majority of criticism aimed at these technologies is now based on concerns about the high cost of nuclear power and the extent to which GM innovations pose unknown risks and hand immense power to the corporations that control the technology.
"At the time, this sparked furious criticism from the British Bankers Associationn, as well as big banks such as Barclays; the word "scaremongering" was used.
The language they are using is appalling, it is misleading, it is scaremongering and, worst of all, their analysis is clearly wrong," he said.
