Sleeping with the Far Right: What the Must Watch reviewers think
Must Watch reviewers Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell share their thoughts on Sleeping with the Far Right on Channel 4.
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Hayley says: "It was really, really mad"
"This is Alice Levine, who in an effort to understand why extremist attitudes are rising in the Western world, spent a week living with Jack Sen - the British nationalist - and his family.
"I can't imagine how Alice handled this at all. It was really, really mad.
"Jack Sen is a politician whose views are so extreme he was kicked out of both UKIP and the BNP for being too extreme. He's a self-styled spin doctor for the nationalist movement and promotes his own beliefs online. He shows her all of these, and sits her down and shows her how to use the far right Facebook groups.
"It's a masterclass in almost total restraint and having perfect manners in the face of someone who is, quite frankly, monstrous.
"She'd go to have lunch with him and his cronies - and it was hard watching her reasoning with men who feel victimised.
"The far right isn't making documentaries trying to understand the left, so why do they get airtime?"
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Scott says: "This just gives a platform far beyond the reach he'd usually have"
"The fact that Jack Sen comes out with extreme views, and in my opinion hateful views, made me think isn't this just giving him a platform far beyond the reach he'd have via other means?
"Although there is this environment where Alice does question him - it still does give a platform.
"They were talking about far right personalities and the way they use social media. Jack Sen said that they know what to say, and what not say - the terms and language and tone so as to avoid being blocked by Facebook.
"It makes you think about the responsibility of social media - it's great because it connects us all, but it connects people who might have hateful views with each other as well.
"There's this really interesting bit where Alice said, 'if I don't come across well in this documentary, is Jack Sen going to alter search engines to bring up negative things about me?'."
Sleeping with the Far Right is on Channel 4 on Thursday 21 February 2019 at 21:00.
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