New EU Alert: Having A Sense Of Humor Is Proof You Might Be A Far-Right Terrorist

From The Federalist.com (July 27):

The European Union (EU) released a non-satirical report this week offering that humor, including the sharing of memes, could be a sign your peer is a “far-right extremist.”

In partnership with the Radicalization Awareness Network, an EU-funded group involved with “countering violent extremism” through “surveillance and security,” the European Commission published an 18-page report titled “It’s not funny anymore. Far-right extremists’ use of humour.”

“Humour has become a central weapon of extremist movements to subvert open societies and to lower the threshold towards violence,” the report states. “Especially within the context of a recent wave of far-right terrorist attacks, we witness ‘playful’ ways in communicating racist ideologies. …This paper scrutinizes how humour functions as a potential factor in terms of influencing far-right extremist violence.”

In block quotes on page 5 of the report, it states that “The most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.” [read more]

This is so stupid. Then again the Left are always miserable and angry, so maybe they don’t understand humor.