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A disturbing video of partygoers on Sylt is causing horror: Young people were chanting right-wing extremist slogans. NRW Minister Liminski is worried about a new phenomenon.
Düsseldorf/Kampen – That it is not a harmless Selfie clip of partying young people, it becomes clear in the first second: “Foreigners out! Foreigners out!” sings a young woman smiling into the camera. And the others complete the terrible chorus to the tune of the Gigi D’Agostino classic “L’amour toujours”: “Germany for the Germans.”
Video from Sylt: “Shame for Germany”
The video shows scenes from SyltThere, young revelers had chanted right-wing extremist slogans in the outdoor area of the Kamper upscale club “Pony” and filmed themselves doing so. The clip has been going viral on social media since Thursday – the day on which the Basic Law, which protects human dignity in Germany, turned 75 years old. There is great horror, Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) said: “Anyone who shouts Nazi slogans like ‘Germany for the Germans – foreigners out’ is a disgrace for Germany.” And CDU member of the Bundestag Serap Güler said to IPPEN.MEDIA: “Party mood and champagne are no excuse for such a misstep.” It is good that the video has become public.
NRW Media Minister Liminski observes phenomenon on TikTok: New kind of cynicism
NRW Media Minister Nathanael Liminski (CDU) sees the behavior of the Sylt slogan-shouters as symptoms of a new media phenomenon. “The video from Sylt is shocking, this behavior is disgusting and unacceptable,” the minister said in an interview with IPPEN.MEDIAHe has observed a “shockingly fast decline in inhibitions” and a worrying phenomenon for some time now, especially on the TikTok platform. There are more and more videos there “with an almost diabolical sense of humor.” This new type of cynicism is catching on with many young people, says Liminski: “They say: it’s kind of funny and you don’t have to take everything so seriously – and then it gets shared.”
In this way, “first the boundaries between humor, hate and agitation and then between the digital and analogue world” become blurred. The video from Sylt is another example of this. For months, there has been a trend of people chanting the text that was found there in discos and at parties.
Nazi slogans in the Sylt video: “Self-staging is now part of it”
This is consistent with an assessment by conflict researcher Andreas Zick. “Self-staging has become part of the process because people know that they will find resonance for it on social media,” he said in an interview with this editorial team. “This shows the collapse of social norms. It is part of a normalization of right-wing extremism in middle-class circles, it is part of the tradition of the ever-increasing radicalization of middle-class circles.”
“Right-wing thinking is taking hold in all social classes”
In fact, the Sylt revelers in their white shirts and sweaters casually draped over their shoulders do not look like neglected young people from disadvantaged social groups. Rather, they are often children of wealthy parents who party in the Sylt establishment. Serap Güler commented on this as follows: “Right-wing thinking is catching on in all social classes and is by no means a purely East German problem.”
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