The Cookie Monster is surrounded by children. All want to see what distributes the blue plush toy from Sesame Street. There are no biscuits, but flyer with the words “German? Cool”.
You can see this scene since November in the Internet, in a video posted on the Web at “future votes”. The looks once harmless, just like the Cookie Monster. But at another point in the film shows who is hidden in the costume – a neo-Nazi who triumphantly holding a sign with the words “School without Racism, School with Courage” in the camera.
This was stolen from a high school in southern Brandenburg – a trophy for the right-wing extremists, who dismiss the motto on the tablet as “anti-German”. An excerpt from the Internet crude explanation of the Nazi crumbs Monsters:
“You always have only cookies for all foreigners left (…)., But not for the identity and culture of the German people. Poisoned her way Democrats the German youth already in the schools of your system, (…)”
Right-wing extremists are trying their racist slogans to belittle, just by means of popular soft toys. This simplifies the contact with young people, lowers inhibitions. The neo-Nazis rely increasingly on social media, even the Cookie Monster posting his propaganda slogans on Twitter.
On Tuesday jugendschutz.net has released its new annual report on right-wing extremist propaganda on the net. The organization was founded in 1997 by the federal states and scans the internet for harmful content. In their report, the protection of young people warn:
“The social web is the most important means to young people (…) to influence with inhuman ideologies of the modern right-wing extremism.”
Last year, the team of jugendschutz.net alone 5507 far-right web deals sighted, of which 70 per cent were on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr and VK.com, a network of Russia. The actual number of brown power supply is likely to be much higher, especially hatred and racism not only open, but also more often seemingly harmless therefore come – a strategy of right-wing extremists, who want to take with their ideology in the middle of society feet.
By 2011, announced the NPD newspaper “German voice” under the heading “Get in the net!”: “The World Network-activism can not be overestimated.” Entirely new population could be addressed. “The Internet allows us to reach people, to which we not come on the road,” said Andy Knape, head of the NPD youth organization JN, recently the U.S. magazine “Rolling Stone”. Particularly proud Knape is dancing on a YouTube video in which members of the JN to Harlem Shake. They encouraged cardboard signs in the air, on which “More sex with Nazis” or “multicultural wegbassen” is. Over 80,000 copies of the article has been viewed.
New Neo-Nazi Study:To spread guerrilla tactics propaganda
As a door opener right-wing extremists also rely on Controversial Topics. The group “Germany against child abuse” at Facebook now has more than 41,100 “Likes” indications. “Clearly no one for child abuse, therefore liken the many,” says John Baldauf, coordinator of the portal no-nazi.net at the Amadeu Antonio Foundation. “The NPD, behind such sites, so trying to win approval – under the motto: No one is doing something about it, but we do.” The range is enormous. Alone in the spring of 2013, hosted an event page a 3.2 million users to participate in an action against child molesters. About 761,000 to say.
The incitement against asylum seekers, core theme of right-wing extremists is, well packaged – usually they pretend to be concerned private citizens. On pages such as “No to Home” “Schneeberg defends itself”, or “asylum flood stop” they supposedly want to inform about new homes for asylum seekers. 65 of these offers include no-nazi.net now. “There are many players in the NPD responsible,” says Baldauf. Users who commented would also invited to openly right-wing extremist groups – the boundaries are blurred.
Again and again, also the Roma and Sinti are target-right hatred, they are referred to as “social parasites” and “criminals” insulted. The Nazis also hashtags from campaigns that actually oppose racism in use Twitter as #schauhin – a guerrilla tactics to make young people’s attention.
New Neo-Nazi Study:Just 67 percent of reported hate posts
Protection of young people also complain of an increase of openly neo-Nazi content. Posting criminal hate posts took the statistics jugendschutz.net According to especially in the social web. In 2013 it was 1460 – a year before the figure was 310 less. “We come now regularly representations, are relegated to second-class citizens in which Jews,
Muslims, Gypsies and homosexuals without further ado,” says Stefan Glaser, deputy head of jugendschutz.net
Since the right-wing extremists often use servers abroad, they felt reasonably safe from prosecution, according to the study. U.S. services such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube would delete only 67 percent of reported posts, and even that can take often. The Russian service UK have responded only in individual cases, particularly in dramatic depictions of violence, so the criticism of jugendschutz.netz. The US service Tumblr enterprising enough.
But hardly a right-wing extremist profile or a video is gone, diving forward to the next – a Sisyphean task for the protection of young people.
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