So you’re not even allowed to want the foreigners out.
You have to want the foreigners everywhere, and you have to want them to continue to flood in.
It is against the law to have a different opinion than the government on this issue.
Otherwise, you would be allowed to say “foreigners out.”
Official figures show that German police have launched a minimum of 360 separate investigations into the singing of a right-wing rendition of DJ Gigi D’Agostino’s “L’amour toujours”—or, with the new lyrics, “Ausländer Raus!” (Foreigners Out)—since last October. The figures do not include the states of Bavaria and Saxony.
The song first came to prominence when it was sung in a viral video by young German partygoers in May, resulting in participants being fired and facing up to five years in prison, courtesy of tough hate speech legislation.
In Germany, ‘hate speech’ is punishable under the Criminal Code, with penalties ranging from fines to imprisonment of up to five years.
Most worryingly, the figures describe how even schoolchildren have not been spared from police harassment as authorities interviewed pupils for posting the video online and even launched an investigation into the singing of the song in class by a student in the coastal town of Sassnitz in eastern Germany.
The overreaction to the song’s viral rise occurs in tandem with a wider state crackdown on the populist AfD party, which soared to second place in recent European elections despite official efforts to purge members from institutions such as the police, civil service, and military.
The cultural rise of Gen Z AfD voters in particular has also surprised the German political establishment, with the party winning 16% of voters under 24 during last month’s European elections, second only to the Christian Democrats.
There is still legal ambiguity within the Federal Court of Justice about whether the phrase ‘foreigners out’ constitutes hate speech under German law. Last month, police swooped in on an all-female birthday party at Cochem where the song was observed to have been sung.
If I was in a country and everyone was shouting “foreigners out,” I’d be like “alright, man, chill, lemme get my bags, I’m going.”
If I was a government and the population was shouting “foreigners out,” I’d be like “well, we’d better get these foreigners out – people don’t like them.”
So what is going on? What are the foreigners thinking? What is the government thinking? Why are the people being arrested for their views?
What kind of tyranny is this that exists not for the benefit of the tyrants, but for a foreign horde?
I’m glad to hear that the kids are voting for the right-wing.
It was sort of obvious that would happen. They force this stuff on the kids, and of course they are going to rebel. Kids can see this is not beneficial to their futures. The kids are not stupid.
They keep referring to them as “Generation Z” and I keep thinking of that band “Generation X” that Billy Idol was in before he went solo. They were pretty aesthetic. Much cooler than that radio shit Billy made later.
But it’s kinda like, in the 1970s, teenage rebellion was doing drugs and having sex.
Now teenage rebellion is beating the shit out of foreigners.
(Let’s be real, they’re probably having sex and doing drugs too. But I don’t care about that. I care about Ausländer Raus!)