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On the one year anniversary of the “Sylt scandal”, the German newspaper Zeit published a “Where are they now?” article. You might remember: The video of a group of twenty-somethings on the island of Sylt singing along to Gigi D’Agostino’s “L’Amour Toujours”, with the added catchy refrain “Ausländer raus” (“Foreigners out”).
Zeit’s article is behind a paywall, but RT Germany summed up its findings in an article of its own.
It is, sadly, an all too familiar story, albeit with a bit of a twist. The backlash was massive. Predictably, the young people in the video were doxed, and almost all of them lost their jobs, their places at university or their internship positions. Some had to change their place of residence. According to RT Germany, there were also “threats of violence and rape fantasies”.
Where this case differs from so many similar ones is that the revelers in the video come from money. As RT Germany writes (my translation),
They come from Hamburg and the Munich area. They are well off, their fathers are doctors, entrepreneurs, consultants. At the time the video is recorded, some of them are enrolled at university, doing internships. Others are employed by large companies, such as Vodafone or Deutsche Bank, or have founded their own company.
While this obviously did not protect them from the inevitable fallout, it meant that they had the means to disappear completely from the Internet, an extremely costly endeavor. Their profiles on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, on the career network LinkedIn, but also the photos that others had posted of them, quotes, Google reviews – all of it was erased.
Four of the people in the video were the focus of investigations launched by the Flensburg public prosecutor’s office. All cases but one were dropped. Only the man who showed a sort of mock “Hitler salute” (which was actually called the German salute at the time) was charged with “using symbols of unconstitutional organizations.” He was given a suspended sentence and had to make a payment of 2,500 euros to a charitable organization. According to the newspaper Bild, he has apologized.
His gestures were “not an expression of his inner attitude”, he is claimed to have said. The man lived in Munich’s old town, in a house that was subsequently smeared with the words “Sylt Nazi pig”. He had been a working student at an advertising agency and was, of course, dismissed without notice.
The young woman seen prominently in front of the camera, whose clients immediately distanced themselves from her after the scandal, has made an apology, as well. The others have also lost their jobs. Their employers, including Deutsche Bank, have released statements distancing themselves from their employees who became notorious overnight. Even those who did not join in the singing have been badly affected by this incident, according to Zeit.
Apparently, it’s still a mystery how the video went online in the first place. Obviously either one of the partygoers or someone they sent it to uploaded it. RT Germany comments,
As unconcerned as the people involved looked into the camera, they were probably sure that the recording would not appear in anyone else’s memory bank afterwards. Or they had misjudged the limits of what is “singable” in today’s Germany in a drunken mood. Either way, it was a mistake.
This, of course, from the media outlet that routinely goes on about the “Ukrainian Nazis”.
Was it a mistake? That would depend on how you define it. Now, I wouldn’t go so far as to ascribe political motives to those young partygoers. Maybe for some of them, it was political; maybe it wasn’t. Maybe they simply got drunk and thought singing politically incorrect lyrics was funny. But that is not the definition of a mistake. At most, it’s called being stupid.
But what RT Germany means, of course, is the societal aspect. Don’t sing that stuff, because “in today’s Germany”, that is to invite all kinds of trouble. Anyone could have told them what would happen. That is the “mistake” RT Germany talks about. While this is undoubtedly true, it begs the question: How is today’s Germany ever going to change for the better if everybody keeps adhering to the accepted norms?
Maybe we need more “mistakes”. Or better yet, we need people consciously stepping outside the bounds of polite society. Some of my friends and acquaintances would certainly call my writing for Counter-Currents a mistake. It’s not. It’s a conscious choice. And I am very conscious of the fact that it might get me in trouble with my employer – even if it probably wouldn’t be grounds for a dismissal. What would I do in that case? I have been thinking about it for a while now. I’d agree to cease writing under my own name, and just continue under an alias. That would be the de-escalatory approach. But I wouldn’t apologize. For what? Nothing I write could be considered “extreme” by any sane person; but we all know we don’t live in a sane society. “In today’s Germany”, my views are probably extreme.
However, what I do, I do out of my personal conviction. Again, I don’t know if the same is true for the young partygoers of Sylt. I would wish it were so; it might make things a little easier for them. Their lives are basically ruined for as long as that video is still out there and Antifa’s memory exists. The denunciation apparatus (as RT Germany so succinctly called it) never sleeps.
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Many people view us dissidents as “stupid” for taking the risks we do. It is as if they have never heard of courage.
I should also add that the concept of “civil courage” is well-known and popular in Germany, or at least it was when I lived there. It refers to taking a public stand against “Nazis and the far right,” of course.
Annoying rich people is a good way for a regime to destroy itself. We saw that in America with Elon and others turning on the Democrats. That more J6ers than is commonly thought were upper middle class or even wealthy helped turn those segments of society against the regime as well.
It would certainly make sense for those young people (and their families) to turn against the regime. The way things stand, it’s their only chance of getting their lives back.
It makes sense for all white Germans to turn against the regime. The multicultural regime offers them only short-term benefits and not for everyone. In the long run it will charge everyone with crime, loss of freedoms, more rapes, decay and genocide of the white race.
“It makes sense for all white Germans…” combining those two words is redundant as Germans belong to the European race. Also, by combining White with Germans implies that nonwhites can be German, & they cannot.
What really burns me up is all those Social Justice Warriors. These purple-haired castrati went out of their way to ruin the lives of a bunch of people simply because of a mild immigration protest. They surely thought they were being big heroes. But so it shall come to pass that the Lord will give them a thorough chastisement one day.
Amen.
The godguy up there can have mercy on their repulsive souls. We won’t down here.
Danke für den Artikel, Clarissa
Someone on this site wrote, and I paraphrase;
“We live in an Orwellian society, every conversation is analyzed, and every comment is scrutinized.”
One of the most profound statements ever written on this site, to which we should add;
“Every conversation is being recorded!”
Great article! The jew never forgets, or forgives. 🤫
You can be made to donate to charity in Germany?
Then, is the RAF considered a charitable organisation? I would like to finance them at this point.
I doubt the RAF qualifies…
Why is it always the Left that doxxes us? Why can’t we doxx them for treason, or just plain ‘hate’ against our people? I have never understood why the (racial) Left always seems to have the moral high ground, but this episode does confirm for me yet again that what we need are rich people willing to take a stand – but they must have some kind of mass organization behind them willing to extend public support, otherwise most won’t stand up.
And you can’t expect average people to risk their livelihoods when living under totalitarian conditions. That’s why the great dissidents (eg, Solzhenitsyn) were so admired.
It seems Germany now has this in terms of the AfD. They’re polling 20-25% of the country. Why isn’t that enough to provide insulation for these young regime victims? How can the regime threaten the economic wellbeing of a quarter of the population? Can’t ordinary dissidents join the party, and then can’t the party help network its supporters to provide for just such emergencies? Unfortunately, I’m not an employer, or on any hiring committee. But if I were, I would go out of my way to try to get dissidents hired. I would rather staff up with likeminded ideologues then get stuck with poorer performing and usually disgruntled progressives.
Somehow, the answer must lie in political intensity. The Left plays hardball, while the Right, despite having the correct opinions, just doesn’t take an all-of-life approach. That must change.
I agree with all of the above. The problem, I suspect, is twofold. First, the rich and influential (as a general rule) are part of a network of their own. You know – belonging to the same golf or tennis club, doing charity together, seeing each other at cultural events. As such, they have unspoken rules. You just don’t do certain things in polite society. I think that is what holds many of them back, not that they don’t have the right ideas.
Second, pertaining to the Right, I sometimes think we don’t act like the Left because we know how to behave. Moral compass and all that (which the Left clearly does not possess).
As for support, in these parts there is at least the Ein Prozent network, but it it, of course, dependent on donations.
Fire fought with inferno. I am absolutely for doxxing our enemies and making their lives pure hell up to the limits we can get away with and when more ground gives our way, push like childbirth even further. I’ve never understood the anti-dox attitude of ours, that it’s somehow beneath us or unfair play out of bounds. Are they kidding? We must defend our own with a ferocious militancy as must be doled out to the enemy and enemy is absolutely what they are, not some ‘agree to disagree’ Jubilee quibblers. Names, addresses, phone numbers, license plates, employers. Is it so horrifying a prospect to maybe even lie about them and overexaggerate to nervously put them on the defensive for once since they’re so keen about doing so to us? They are scum and it’s time to start treating them as such.
The following doesn’t constitute a recommendation, of course, but merely an observation. That said, when rightists finally get sick of getting walked over, the general historical pattern is that leftists end up getting their just reward.
Prior to the beginning of the leftist era – prior to universal suffrage – governments were prepared to oppress anarchists & subversives, while publicly outing oneself as a trannie or even a homosexual had similar social consequences to what these posh young Bavarians have endured up until the 1970s. There is now no significant blowback for being outed as an anarchist nor, outside perhaps of paedophilia, as a sexual degenerate.
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