 "The Dangerous Content and Disturbing Announcement in the FPÖ Youth Video")
The video of the FPÖ youth shows their content orientation and includes a dangerous announcement.
Always, really always, when it comes to writing lines like these, a big question arises: Should one even respond to right-wing excitement from the liberal milieu? Can you get involved in the provocation? Doesn’t the media attention really reward these gaffes and make journalists involuntarily vicarious agents of questionable propaganda?
That may have been the case in the past. In the recently published video of the Freedom Youth, however, there are so many problems that one can no longer look away.
On the one hand, things are implicitly put up for discussion in the video about which a consensus has long been reached in society as a whole. For example, a “Black Lives Matter” poster is shown while the keyword “Wokeism” is mentioned. Can’t you agree with the FPÖ that every human life counts the same and you don’t have to be “woke” – i.e. excessively politically correct – to see it that way?
On the other hand, with the video, the FPÖ is explicitly targeting young people, a group that is particularly worthy of protection, which they want to deceive with images of the Notre-Dame brand about the words “multicultural dystopia” by insinuating an attack. Apparently, they also want to get the youngsters enthusiastic about walking through the darkness, wielding torches and fantasizing about “population exchange” – a slogan used by the New Right. Incidentally, Lower Austria’s blue deputy governor, Udo Landbauer, was also enthusiastic.
Ultimately, the video contains a clear announcement: “Starting today” the young freedom fighters want to become active, determine the discourse and shape their “version of a better future”. All of this while the young people in the video gaze reverently at the balcony from which Hitler announced on March 15, 1938 that Austria would be “annexed” to the German Reich. This is more than mere provocation – this is a program, financed by 167,000 euros from taxpayers, which the Ring of Freedom Youth received last year.
elisabeth.hofer@diepresse.com
2023-08-29 19:16:28
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