Oh, Mommy, I Ain’t No Commie — I Just Fight Hate Speech on the Internet

We’ve been posting recently about the German government’s crackdown on “hate speech” against immigrants on the Internet, as subcontracted to former Stasi agent Anetta Kahane and the Amadeu Antonio Foundation (see three previous posts).

Below are excerpts from a pamphlet [pdf] published by Ms. Kahane’s minions at her foundation. This publication provides guidelines for the earnest and zealous agents of the state who are assigned to police “hate” on the Internet.

Many thanks to Egri Nök for the translation.

Agitation against refugees in social networks

Guidance

Amadeu Antonio Foundation

Initiatives for civil society and democratic culture

Sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth

Since refugees* have increasingly been seeking shelter from war and persecution in the Germanophone region, the social networks are exploding. Everyone has got an opinion, a warning, worries, a lot of hate and even more anger.

First: How to recognize racist agitation against refugees

To become active against racist agitation, it is necessary to create an awareness of racist utterances, to recognize them for what they are. Essentially, refugees are collectively devalued by hate speech, always in accordance with discrimination by society. Insults against refugees, frequently paired with racist (and often sexist or anti-Semitic) prejudices, are an apparent characteristic of agitation. Most of the time, emotional hate is disguised as rational argumentation. Agitation makes use of wrong information, for example “refugees are exploiting social security systems”. Indirect hate speech often appears harmless at first sight, but in its final consequence it legitimizes racism and violence against refugees, for example, “the right to asylum should be abolished.” (Article 16a of the Basic Law guarantees asylum das a fundamental right: “The politically persecuted enjoy the right to asylum.”) Frequent forms of racist agitation against refugees are:

  • Juxtaposition of “we” and “they” [or “us” and “them”]
  • Generalizations (“all refugees…) and equations (for example refugee = Muslim)
  • Normalizing discrimination: “It is no wonder that…”
  • Projection of societal problems, such as sexism, criminality or lack of housing for example, onto “refugees”
  • Denigrating terms, for example “economic refugee”, suggests that the basic right to asylum is being exploited by people who are only coming to Germany for economic reasons, not because they are seeking shelter from persecution
  • De-humanization: Equation of refugees with insects, parasites, animals
  • Lies about refugees or alleged criminality, violence, rapes, forged documents — often concealed as one’s own alleged experience
  • Cultural racism (“They just do not fit in with us”)
  • (Nationalistic) relativization: What about “our” children/homeless etc.?
  • One is beginning to feel like a stranger in one’s own country / “death of the people”
  • Those up there / the lying press are not telling us the truth
  • Whoever helps refugees is a Gutmensch, or even an extreme Leftist
  • Am I a Nazi, just because I… / What about my freedom of opinion when you delete my comments?

Often racist agitation is disguised as satire or humor, or afterwards the excuse is made: It was just a joke.

24 thoughts on “Oh, Mommy, I Ain’t No Commie — I Just Fight Hate Speech on the Internet

  1. I can almost smell the patchouli oil. Some things never really change. Especially the earnestness.

  2. Somebody should lock this fool and her ilk in an asylum for the incurably insane.

  3. Could a German lawyer please advise: is this just the Maas and Kahane Kumbaya fantasy world in which they would like people to always be nice, or is it really illegal to use these so-called forms of ‘racist agitation’.

    And: why doesn’t the koran apply? Let me help you, Herr Maas: “Insults against infidels, frequently paired with racist (and often sexist or anti-Semitic) prejudices, are a definite characteristic of the koran.”

  4. Kahane defines her hate picture of the native Europeans:

    §1 “us” and “them”, –> the Europeans who refuse to capitulate.
    §2 Generalizations (“all refugees…) –> are good / (–> Geschenke* see below).
    §3 Normalizing discrimination: “It is no wonder that…” –> Nazis resist
    §4 Projection of societal problems, –> to apologise for any misbehaviour of migrants.
    §5 Denigrating terms, –> denying statistics reg. the majority of “economic refugees”
    §6 De-humanization: Equation of –> critics with Nazis
    §7 Lies about refugees –> suppressing actual criminality, violence, rapes.
    §8 Cultural racism (“They just do not fit in with us”) / –> They do not want to dissolve
    §9 (Nationalistic) relativization: What about “ –> their” children/homeless etc.?
    §10 One is beginning to feel like a stranger in one’s own country / “death of the people”
    –> why do they stick to facts and don’t close their eyes (commit suicide or leave)
    §11 Those up there / the lying press are not telling us the truth
    –> we are up there and we always tell the truth and if not then its for the good
    §12 Whoever helps refugees is a Gutmensch, or even an extreme Leftist
    –> whoever criticises migration policy is a hater or at least a Nazi
    §13 Am I a Nazi, just because I… / What about my freedom of opinion …?
    –> what is your freedom of opinion if I, Kahane, know what is right and wrong.

    If you have missed this tiny difference in the discussion:

    Kahane asks a Nation to dissolve under uncontrolled migration.
    Kahana does not ask for the adherence to asylum law or a single migrant to behave, since: §2 Generalizations (“all refugees…) –> are good / (–> Geschenke).

    http://www.achgut.com/artikel/geschenkmenschen1

    The Nation of Dichter and Denker has chosen an idiot as a guardian for nationwide thought processes.

    • Not an idiot, but a well trained agent of totalitarian chaos. Former communists from the bolshevik Eastern bloc bring their aggressive talents into the soft pulp of Western bureaucrats’ new order state. It looks like Germany unification was just a deal to get the plans and the engineers so they can build the war-on-people machine for the new banksters. Idiots they are not; devoid of conscience, sons of evil, artisans of destruction…

  5. Gleichschaltung is back with a vengeance.

    After (3) years as a linguist in Germany in the 1960’s with US military I had had enough. I have zero interest in going to Germany at all, except perhaps to meet the PEGIDA folks and people like them. They can come to Montana and I will see them here.

    • I’m convinced that the remaining flower of German manhood and masculinity was extinguished in the Ardennes and on the Ostfront.

      Speaking as someone of one-quarter German heritage, I find modern Germans largely embarrassing.

  6. From all the communist scum, the Stasi were the most despicable although very precise (following the great ancestor organization the Gestapo) .

  7. The “Frequent forms of racist agitation against refugees” the pamphlet points out are all straw-men – it claims that the “agitators” make generalizations. But this entire pamphlet is a generalization in itself when it defines and lumps so-called agitators into one group. It is true that there are actual racists and people in Germany who identify themselves with Nazi ideology and so forth. But you always have these types and they do not by a long shot represent the majority of the German population who are currently sick and tired of their government’s immigration policies but are afraid to speak out because of consequences. Those in journalism haven’t forgotten what msm and the state did to Udo Ulfkotte. The culture, the education system in Germany during the last three or four decades has been socially engineering its citizens which has conditioned too many of them to accept the nonsense this obnoxious Hetze Gegen Fluchtlinge pamphlet spews.

  8. ‘disguised as rational argument’

    This is truly disturbing and leads to thought crime.
    Orwellian is an adjective that is overused but developments in Europe to clamps down on opponents of replacement migration and critics of retrograde Islam are Orwellian.

    It’s all leading to civil war and leftists have joined with Islam.
    The red green alliances are the most dangerous political groups of the 21st century.
    They are driving aeurope to disaster and have the temerity to declare it progress.

    They large pushing Europe towards violent revolution , it is their fault, they are the oppressors seeking to make Europeans, minorities in their own countries to provide ‘breathing room’ as one opinion piece in the Times of India called it, for countries in the third world with huge population bulges.

    The language used by the neo-Stasi could be used to accuse just about anyone for saying just about anything.

    Welcome to EUrabia.

    • The internet is basically telepathy. As soon as you search or click on a new site, the STASI observer and her buddies read your mind.

      So now in Germany thought crime will be punished. See what Maas said in Twitter: “Entschlossenes Vorgehen gegen #Hasspostings sollte jedem noch mal zu denken geben, bevor er in die Tasten haut.”

      “Determined action against #hate posts should make everyone think, before he hits the keys.” [yes, he did use the masculine ‘er’. Interesting.]

      So yes, Maas is now controlling thought crimes.

    • Please forgive typos and somewhat breathless syntax in above comment, it was a bumpy ride.

    • You’re right: Orwellian is over-used so it loses its punch. I’ll bet we could come up with a more modern adjective.

  9. It has long been clear that “hate speech” is any criticism of the Left or its clients.

        • ‘Alinsky is their Mohammed’ and hate speech their blasphemy law.
          Touche, I shall pinch that if you don’t mind, and combine the two; like the Baron and Matt Bracken I enjoy the odd photo-montage and meme.
          I keep meaning to send a few to GoV- a few I prepared earlier;
          https://www.flickr.com/photos/skulkyarts/16005070652/in/album-72157666312062393/
          There is a quasi-religous fervour in the progressive’s adherence to multikulti.
          To the point the narrative trumps people’s safety and reality itself.

        • ‘Alinsky is their Mohammed’ and hate speech their blasphemy law.
          Touche, I shall pinch that if you don’t mind, and combine the two; like the Baron and Matt Bracken I enjoy the odd photo-montage and meme.
          I keep meaning to send a few to GoV- a few I prepared earlier;
          https://www.flickr.com/photos/skulkyarts/16005070652/in/album-72157666312062393/
          There is a quasi-religous fervour in the progressive’s adherence to multikulti.
          To the point the narrative trumps people’s safety and reality itself.

          p.s
          I’m having difficulty posting on wordpress, (probably my browser) apologies for any double-posts.

          • That happens fairly frequently. I just delete the extras when I notice. But sometimes a commenter will post a particularly foul excresence, and then will put it quickly on several other posts, sometimes using “anon” by the third try.

  10. Now, how would Ivan Jurcevic, the security guard for a Cologne hotel, thanks to whose testimony on Facebook we got to know what happened on New Year’s Eve last year (in the absence of any media or police reports whatsoever), fare under these rules?

    “We and they”? – tick. He talked about “they” a lot…

    “Lies about refugees or alleged criminality, violence, rapes, forged documents — often concealed as one’s own alleged experience” – since at that point, no-one knew about the Cologne attacks, who’s to say that Mr Jurcevic’s testimony wouldn’t be judged by the likes of Ms Kahane to have been a “lie”? So tick…

    To conclude – had these rules been in place on Facebook at the time of the New Year’s Eve attacks, would we have heard anything about them?!

    Yet the opening of Facebook’s new initiative against “hate speech” in Berlin came only a few weeks after the Cologne attacks and Mr Jurcevic’s testimony… just a coincidence? Or something specifically intended to make sure that we would never hear about incidents like in Cologne ever again?

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