This is the third and final installment from the interview I had with Jörg Luyken of The German Review. I had to wait until after the results of the European Elections to post it as it was supposed to be a nailbiter, yet after the results on June 9th, it has become clear that Germany needs a new leader and that the policies of the Traffic Light Coalition, together with the support from its residents have disappeared. There are many underlying reasons behind the exponential surge of the far-right Alternatives AfD. Part of that to do with the rise of nationalists in neighboring countries, like Italy, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria. They at least know their history and fears of another Reich coming to Germany. Their trend was gradually increasing to the point of boiling. The rocket rise has to do with not just the beat-down of the policies by the Scholz government as absurd and far from reality, and it has something to do with just having a shepard because they are lost like a sheep from the herd (see my entry from yesterday). It has mostly to do with using the AfD as pop culture. Especially among the youth has the far-right party exploited them and their fears through all channels possible, including social media. The end result is a piece that Luyken wrote before the elections which needs no introduction. Just a saying coined by Bertrand Russell which one should really think about:
First they fascinate the fools, then they muzzle the intelligent.
Again this is a sample; the rest you can read by clicking on the link at the end.
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Dear Reader
Wherever you look in Germany these days, fashionable young people are calling for ethnic cleansing.
On social media, the catchy hook of a dance song has been repurposed as a demand for a racially pure Germany.
For months now, Italian DJ Gigi D’Agostino’s song “L’amour toujours” has been trending on social media. When the hook arrives, those in the know chant: “Germany for the Germans, foreigners out.”
Occasionally, video popped up of drunk youths in rural Saxony chanting the words in the early hours in a beer tent. Largely though, this was happening at a level that was imperceptible to anyone over the age of 30.
Then, something happened that made it clear that this meme was way more popular than anyone realised.
On the luxury island of Sylt on the Whitsum holiday weekend, a smartly-dressed young woman shot a video of her and her friends bellowing out the lyrics in the middle of a packed beer garden.
This was as far from a poor east German village as you could get.
The bar charges a €150 entrance fee. The crème de la crème of German society were swaying away to a neo-Nazi slogan and no one around them seemed to care. At the end of the video, a man with a polo short draped over his shoulders even gave a Hitler salute.
The backlash was vicious. The tabloid press named and shamed the ‘Sylt snobs’, who were soon fired by their employers.
Asked for his reaction, Olaf Scholz described the chants as “disgusting and unacceptable” and said: “we need to focus on ensuring that this behaviour doesn’t spread.”
But spread it has.
Since the Sylt video went viral, the racist version of “L’amour toujours” has bubbled up all over the place.
One of the country’s most expensive private schools is investigating reports that pupils sang it at a school party. It has been heard at beer festivals and nightclubs; most recently it was sung by security guards at a refugee centre.
While this call for ethnic cleansing is spreading across the country’s dance floors, a very different atmosphere surrounds another call for mass deportations.
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Read more about it by clicking on the link below:
Link: https://www.thegermanreview.de/p/when-did-ethnic-cleansing-become
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