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Also: Sometimes ''(pro-)zionistic'' (pro-Israeli) and ''(pro-)semitistic'' (pro-Jewish) statements can also be used as a protection against accusations of racism according to the motto "you cannot be a racist when you are pro-Israeli". (In Germany CxU und AfD ultraconservatives used to be [https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/verbundete-gegen-islam-und-islamismus-4035085.html extra cautious] to not rise attention by antisemitic statements in public.) [[wp:Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war|After 2023]] all the more as support for the state Israel can be used against pro-Palestine factions and their left sympathizers - which unluckily really have become more antisemitic in the wake of the activists that propagate the critical race theory and anti-colonialism. | Also: Sometimes ''(pro-)zionistic'' (pro-Israeli) and ''(pro-)semitistic'' (pro-Jewish) statements can also be used as a protection against accusations of racism according to the motto "you cannot be a racist when you are pro-Israeli". (In Germany CxU und AfD ultraconservatives used to be [https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/verbundete-gegen-islam-und-islamismus-4035085.html extra cautious] to not rise attention by antisemitic statements in public.) [[wp:Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war|After 2023]] all the more as support for the state Israel can be used against pro-Palestine factions and their left sympathizers - which unluckily really have become more antisemitic in the wake of the activists that propagate the critical race theory and anti-colonialism. | ||
The ultraconservatives are using xenophob ( | The ultraconservatives are using xenophob (antimigrant) and queerphobe (homophobe, transphobe, etc.) positions to create two shared images of enemies ("Feindbilder") that serves as '''universal scapegoats''' and '''populistic mobilization instruments'''. An unexpected help for those people are the largely uncontrolled therefore polarizing, hate inciting (anti-)social media which algorithms help to propagate their under-complex narratives fitting the shorter becoming attention span of the still easily influenceable youngsters. | ||
The ultraconservatives are only exceeded by the extreme right that extend these views by even more radical versions (''hard'' ethnopluralism), strong anti-scientific, anti-factual narratives and conspiracy theories. | The ultraconservatives are only exceeded by the extreme right that extend these views by even more radical versions (''hard'' ethnopluralism), strong anti-scientific, anti-factual narratives and conspiracy theories. | ||
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"The new (self-proclaimed) party of employees", the pool of activated non-voters, "protest voters", rights beyond CDU and extreme right. | "The new (self-proclaimed) party of employees", the pool of activated non-voters, "protest voters", rights beyond CDU and extreme right. | ||
To say it all bluntly: Some protest voters are simply naive, some others are amoral opportunists which risk the rise of AfD (almost) to power to see their goals getting picked up by other parties. When they see their goals have moved closer they say. "AfD wirkt." ("AfD is effective.") An alternative phrase is "Denkzettel" ("a furious / heavy broad hint") and "Selbstverteidigung" which was picked up by members of other parties: "''To vote for AfD is no self-defense.''" | |||
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