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Regarding that Sylt video, what struck me most was how badly performed that act of rebellion was on a factual level. What is wrong with generation TikTok if they can't even LARP at being Nazis better than that? "Auslaender raus"? The 90s called, they want their NPD back. Today it is "Remigration von Bundesbuergern", which is way more offensive btw. Doing the Hitler Salute while also indicating the Hitler mustache with the other hand is something I have never seen outside of people making fun of Nazis, and would likely have gotten you into trouble in the third Reich.
Anyone who has two brain cells to rub together, went to school in Germany, and decides to annoy the mainstream by voicing Fascist thoughts should be able to do better than that. I mean, I don't expect a torch march while they sing the Host-Wessel-Lied, but would it be too much to ask that they perform the salutes correctly? I sure hope Hitler has youtube access in hell so that he knows what became of his ideology (not that it had not started out with drunk losers in the first place).
I am not saying that I approve of that kind of rebellion. It is like seeing a four-year-old who decides that he will annoy his parents by smearing dog turds in his face and then falls down as he tries to pick the poo up.
And just like I would not want that four-year-old being on national TV, I also don't think the Sylt people should be. From the way they act it seems likely that they are not what one would call satifaktionsfaehig (capable of giving satisfaction, i.e. in a duel). Now, if one of them was a leader in a youth group of a political party, that would be a reason for this video to make the news. And if this is part of some weird TikTok trend where this is among the top ten things in Germany, it would be fair to report about that.
I mean, if a court decides that they violated the law and makes them pay a fine, I am totally okay with that. But I don't like like mobs, and there will always be some who will see this as their opportunity to prove what valiant anti-fascists they are.
Presumably it's less easy to chant that to a Gigi D'Augustino tune.
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