Below is an election campaign video (AI-generated) that was released by the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland, Alternative for Germany) last month for the recent elections. The government is now trying to prosecute the AfD for using it.
Many thanks to Schwabe for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:
The following excerpt (also translated by Schwabe) about the government’s actions is from an article posted by the Austrian portal Freilich Magazin:
The [government] media institute [MABB] asserts that the concept of “impairment” includes disturbances and damage to psychological and social development [of children].
A depiction that “creates a threat scenario emanating from people with dark skin colour and hair” has the potential to for negatively affect young people’s ability to socialize and promote stigmatizing and discriminatory behaviour patterns.
In its evaluation of the video, the MABB therefore concludes that the persons depicted are divided into “good” and “evil”, which violates the “tolerance imperative” and leads to “social-ethical disorientation”.
Original source of the video on Twitter/X
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | You decide. You decide if the center of your town | |
| 00:04 | gets to keep its weekly market, or a drug market. | |
| 00:08 | Whether the trains finally run on time again, | |
| 00:11 | or the train station becomes a crime scene. | |
| 00:14 | You decide if parents can send their children to school without worrying, | |
| 00:19 | or whether the fear of playground violence causes sleepless nights. | |
| 00:23 | Whether Brandenburg even means offering perspective | |
| 00:28 | or loss of prosperity and foreign infiltration. | |
| 00:32 | You decide if your hard earned money is spent on bike paths in Peru | |
| 00:35 | or for healthy roads in your homeland. | |
| 00:38 | Whether it will be invested in your future | |
| 00:42 | or in the future of strangers | |
| 00:45 | You decide whether the county of Brandenburg remains the land of pine forests | |
| 00:48 | or if it becomes a windmill monstrosity. | |
| 00:51 | Whether there the kindergartens and schools are renovated or new asylum centers are built. | |
| 00:56 | You decide whether things should continue as they are or whether we change course. | |
| 01:01 | You decide. Make your decision on the 22nd September for the AfD. | |
| 01:10 | It’s time. |