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‘This is the normalisation of racism’: apprehension at prospect of election success for Austria’s far right (www.theguardian.com)

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Anti-migrant, anti-Islam FPÖ could emerge as most voted for party in Sunday’s parliamentary poll

After winning the EU elections in June, Austria’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) seized the moment, calling for the appointment of a EU “remigration” commissioner to be tasked with the forced return of migrants and citizens with a migration background to their countries of origin.

The muted reaction that followed was a sharp contrast to Germany, where months earlier, allegations that members of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had attended a meeting at which they discussed remigration dominated headlines and prompted tens of thousands to take to the streets in protest.

The difference was not lost on Farid Hafez, a senior researcher at Georgetown University. In Austria, “there was no outcry,” he said. “This is the normalisation of racism that the far right has achieved and that has become a very normal part of daily Austrian politics.”

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[-] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 1 points 26 minutes ago

As someone who lives in Austria and happens to have immigrant roots (parents came here in the early 90ies)

The rise of the far right is partly due to the incompetence of the other parties.

The social democrats are almost non existent when it comes to political topics of any sort.

The "greens" (mostly left) turned out to be kissasses with whomever they coalition with.

And the bitches-of-the-riches (that's literally how they called themselves) well... they only act in the interest of the wealthiest.

So, "normal" people have almost no sane option to vote for, and some even go as far as to vote the far-rights as an act of demonstration.

Sure, there are other small parties to vote for, but at the end, they might get 3% all together, because they just din't have the budget to advertise themselves strong enough, like the big ones do.

[-] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 hour ago

Not surprising, white nationalist movements were always there but only somewhat recently they stopped using extreme rhetoric in order to get more supporters, and it's super effective. Nowadays you have even mildly exclusionary people who wouldn't have supported white nationalists spout anti-immigration nonsense online and irl, voting for the far-right thinking they're solving some issue that doesn't really exist in reality and is massively overblown.

The world is going back to authoritarianism.

[-] Atin@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

I think we are too far now from the generation that fought or grew up during WW2. I hope we aren't doomed to repeat it.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

After winning the EU elections in June, Austria’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) seized the moment, calling for the appointment of a EU “remigration” commissioner to be tasked with the forced return of migrants and citizens with a migration background to their countries of origin.

Jesus Christ.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Exhume and ship Beethoven's corpse back to Belgium! Austrian soil is for Austrian blood alone!

[-] TheSealStartedIt@feddit.org 3 points 4 hours ago

*Bonn. He's born in Bonn, Germany. We'll gladly take him back.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 20 points 12 hours ago

You know what's so funny about people who say we don't want these people here and we should send them back? It's that they fail to even ask or address the question of why those people uprooted their entire lives and left in the first place.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 23 points 11 hours ago

because they don’t give a shit.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 hours ago

It would be fucking insane if they started deporting citizens.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 7 hours ago

They managed to normalize the idea, that there is "real" citizens and people who only hold the citizenship. It is Blut und Boden like from Hitlers Nazis all along. The problem is that these ideas have infiltrated large swaths of politics in Austria and Germany, so people claiming to be conservative or liberal now subscribe to the same principles of hard Nazi ideology, just worded differently.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

honestly surprised that idea isn't bigger among the right in the US.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

.... time again throughout history, bad things and terrible ideas only come about due to the ignorance and inaction of individuals who think that a movement may be good for them but deep down know that they are not morally right, so instead they choose to do nothing in the hopes that their most secret thoughts and beliefs might come true but if they don't, they can plausibly deny everything.

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