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# Muck spreading season
- URL: https://exchange.ca-wn.org/muck-spreading-season/
- Published: 2025-09-01T18:34:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-01T18:34:32.000Z
- Author: CA-WN Exchange
- Tags: council, local matters, opinion

### The ground is being prepared for what is to come, on our fields and in our Council Chambers, and in all our lives.

Here’s what was sprayed in a discussion on abandoning the Council’s Net Zero pledges:

> *Extremists* 
> *Communists* 
> *Anti-capitalists* 
> *Lunatics* 
> *Brown rice and sandals brigade* 
> *Those who plait their armpit hair*1

### Othering

If we are none of the above, then we are different from *them.* This is *othering*, deliberately drawing a distinction between *us* and *them*. 

*Othering* reveals more about those that *other* than those that are *othered*.

Presenting **our** race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or social class as superior to **theirs** is the authoritarian’s tactic.

**Othering** starts with ***scapegoating***, blaming others for something that’s not their fault, progresses through ***gaslighting***, deliberately manipulating people's perception of reality, and ends up with ***thuggery*** in our streets. It’s the fascist’s favourite manoeuvre and it’s back in fashion.

There's only one cult that would call out communists, anti-capitalists, lunatics, the brown rice and sandals brigade or those who plait their armpit hair. And CA-WN isn't afraid to call out that cult.

> Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

John Stuart Mill Inaugural Address at St Andrew's (1867)

REFERENCE  
1 The words of a Councillor in a statement supporting scrapping the Net Zero 2030 in the [YouTube recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwULicM-SN8&ref=exchange.ca-wn.org) at 20:50.