What lives in the bogs.

As with all Courts of the Fae, the Court of Media has groups within groups and some of these need to be considered with care.
These groups, loosely, are termed extremists or hate groups and inspire fear, contempt and disgust in other members of the Court. The problem with these groups isn't the overtly aggressive ones, or the ones that end up listed where the rest of the Court can see them. The ones you need to watch for are the ones that whisper insidious half-truths into your ear when you’re not thinking about them, who convince you with logic and reason and the tools of Science that they are right. These are the ones that slip through the classifications that get their name on lists, appear to be innocuous or simply entitled to their opinions. These are the first dangers the New Fae fail to warn you about.

There are obvious groups, ones that are plastered everywhere with their hatred and arrogance worn like badges of honour. These groups are not the ones that should be of concern because they are so clearly marked that they are all but impossible to miss if you’re looking. The lists of hate groups are filled with white-supremacists, labelled and named and flown like a banner to unite against. Perhaps the most deceptive part about these lists is that they are not as exhaustive as they would like, and they want people to believe that they have done what they claim to have set out to do. Do not believe them.

Extremist groups don’t have to be so overt, and that is the thing to be wary of, people who propose things that are at first glance logical but rely on a series of assumptions that are at best discriminatory. Australia First Party could be considered such a group, but it doesn’t appear on the lists plastered everywhere because it would be defamatory. This party wants to return to the days when Australia manufactured its own products, which is understandable for a political party since unemployment rates matter in campaigns, and when foreign investors had more restrictions. They also want to abolish multiculturalism and re-establish and support the traditional family, which could very well be discriminatory to anyone from an ethnic group or anyone who does not fit into the traditional family. That is something that anyone wandering through the Court should be aware of. And there are more groups like this waiting in the wings to be discovered, their messages couched in terms of ‘doing what’s right’, ‘making things better’, ‘righting injustices’. The sentiment carried is well and good, but the actions, those need to be considered and weighed and measured without the whispering voices trying to justify, to rationalise, to soothe. It is this that is the truly dangerous section of the Court.

Be careful, as you wander through the paths of this Court and the forest that surrounds it. Be wary, because those well meaning voices, those reasoned, gentle, softly impassioned voices, are waiting to snare minds into action, and like the path that marsh fae show their prey, once the walk is begun, it is very hard to drag clear of the muck.