#pegida

[onpoli]

This is the second recent incident of far-right violence aimed at disrupting Pride celebrations in Ontario

Saturday shoppers in Toronto watched in disbelief as a dozen members of far-right hate groups briefly transformed one of Canada’s most iconic malls into a surreal scene straight out of Fight Club this weekend.

The incident comes on the heels of similar violence only one weekend earlier at Hamilton’s Pride festival.

Disturbing videos circulating on social media captured the moment when a dozen or more hate group members marched through the Eaton Centre followed by several anti-fascist counter-protesters who chanted: “Go home Nazis.”

Things took a violent turn when some hate group members, a number of whom can be seen with helmets, body armour and weapons, swarmed their hecklers in front of shoppers at Nordstrom’s.

[boom-kaka-laka]

Funny how fast people forget that "my rights" can never go without "everyone else's rights"

[das-asoziale-netzwerk]

Throwback zum besten Pegida Interview aller Zeiten

[seriouslycromulent]

And now this break from my fandom chatter to say something really important ...

Here I am supposed to be all wrapped up in my own country’s political problems and stressing over our mid-term elections, and all I could do today was watch coverage of the Brazilian voting results analysis and listen to pundits talk about the possibility of Jair Bolsonaro rising to power. 

Honestly, it hurts my stomach to see so many nations in the world giving over to authoritarian regimes. I’m not one to wax hyperbole about the fate of a nation, and I’m not even worried about mine -- It’s always been horrible here for one group or another. So much so I think some of us are numb to our own disenfranchisement. -- but I’m really afraid for Brazil and what a Bolsonaro presidency would bring. 

You’re talking about a man and his followers who think Brazil was better off under a military dictatorship that resulted in thousands of people being killed. And the saddest part? Unlike the UK, Canada, and the US, many of Bolsonaro’s followers and supporters of far-right policies and ideals are their youngest voters.

That’s right. Jair Bolsonaro has a huge following among the 20-something voting block. People too young to remember what that military dictatorship was like, even though it lasted well into the 1980s.

This shit is really scary. And not because John Oliver said so. (I can’t stand that guy anyway.) The swing to right-wing authoritarian governments around the world is pervasive in a way far more unsettling than our new perjuring sex offender on the Supreme Court. This is a world where we’re pushing 7.5 billion people, and the wealthy elite are in fear of an uprising of the poor that will create a class war they know they cannot win. So they’re making their last power grab before the next global financial disaster hits, and the poor will be too weak to assemble. I wish this was my imagination, but sadly, it isn’t.

Shit, even Germany has seen a rebirth of the Nazi movement in the last year. In Germany. Where it’s illegal to even make jokes about the Holocaust. Unfortunately, it’s kind of expected though given the rise of Pegida. 

I don’t know. It’s like the world decided to ignore everything history ever taught us, and all the inmates are now running the asylum.

[ultraschoen]

17.09.2017   SpVgg Fürth - Fortuna Düsseldorf:

Beim Heimspiel gegen Düsseldorf  mobilisierten die Horidos zu den Protesten gegen Pegida, die für den 22.09. eine Demonstration in Fürth angekündigt haben. Damit wird ein zweiter Versuch unternommen, den rassistischen Aufmarsch auch in Fürth zu etablieren - ebenso wird zum zweiten Mal seitens der Fürther Fanszene zu Gegenprotesten aufgerufen. Ultraschön und wichtig - gerade in Zeiten von gesellschaftlichem Rechtsruck. 

[ratlosnetzwerk]

'Populistisch' im eigentlichen Sinne ist eine Kampagne stets dann, wenn sie vorgibt, der Willensausdruck eines homogenen Volksganzen zu sein, das sich nun irgendwelcher inneren Feinde erwehren müsse. An die Stelle des tatsächlich vorhandenen gesellschaftlichen Interessenpluralismus, den demokratische Politik auszutragen hätte, tritt so allmählich wiederum eine 'Volksgemeinschaft'. Eine der Aufgaben kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie wäre es, solche fatalen Tendenzen beim Namen zu nennen. Hierfür bedürfte es allerdings einer Verständigung über die Kriterien eines demokratisch verfaßten Gemeinwesens. Postmoderne Beliebigkeit und politische Indifferenz (...) bedeuten stets eine Prämie für die jeweils Mächtigeren, ohne deren institutionelle Kontrolle demokratische Verfassungen zur Farce verkämen. Insofern bildet das kritische Potential ihrer Bürger nach wie vor die notwendige, wenngleich keine zureichende Bedingung für den Erhalt der Demokratie.

Lenk, Kurt (2000). Ideologische Kontinuitäten und gesellschaftlicher Wandel. In: Jäger, Siegfried & Schobert, Alfred (Hrsg.): Weiter auf unsicherem Grund. Faschismus, Rechtsextremismus, Rassismus. Kontinuitäten und Brüche. S. 19. Duisburg: Edition DISS.