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.”
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.
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.
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.
Exhume and ship Beethoven’s corpse back to Belgium! Austrian soil is for Austrian blood alone!
*Bonn. He’s born in Bonn, Germany. We’ll gladly take him back.
It would be fucking insane if they started deporting citizens.
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.
honestly surprised that idea isn’t bigger among the right in the US.
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.
because they don’t give a shit.
“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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