Right-wing extremist ideas are increasingly creeping into the middle of society. That is why a counter-movement has formed – also in Vorarlberg. Historian Harald Walser explains why a clear position is important for democracy.
Recently, 4,000 people gathered on Dornbirn’s market square to take a stand against right-wing extremism. Among them were representatives of human rights NGOs, politicians, business people, but also many ‘normal’ citizens with their children. The oft-quoted ‘silent center’ also rose around Ländle, just as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in other Austrian and German cities. The final blow was an ominous meeting of right-wing extremists in Potsdam, where, according to the research network ‘Correctiv’, Austrian Martin Sellner of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement spoke of millions of ‘remigration’ from Germany. And it was precisely this Identitarian Movement that FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl recently downplayingly called a “right-wing NGO” – completely ignoring the fact that the group is controlled by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution because of its legal rights. extremist ideas.
Source: Krone
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