At Sylt, the Empörometer(TM) reaches its maximum deviation.
Germany has discovered right-wing extremism: he wears a Polish shirt and fights in battle. For a moment, the world becomes straightforward.
As a professional opinion-maker - and this field ranges from LinkedIn trolls to columnists to the President of the Bundestag - one must be able to swiftly analyze a current event gaining much attention: Should one form their own opinion on it quickly? Or is the water too hot?
That's where the Emporometer(TM) comes in! The Emporometer(TM) indicates whether one can comprehend the targeted opinion as part of a protective crowd or end up on the sidelines. For example, when young, stupid foreigner-hating shouts occur on Sylt, the Emporometer is at its peak. Here, little can go wrong, as everyone can join in. And they did.
You can almost be envious: My parties have never had the entire state government commenting, but the "Champagne Nazis" received a gift from them! The Federal President lamented the "corruption of political courtesy forms" as if someone had sworn in a party speech. The Bundestag President Bärbel Bas called for something vague, the "highest penalty," and the Federal Chancellor called the chants "disgusting."
Oh God, LinkedIn.
Many people were very drunk and boasted about how the partygoers in Kampen had acted, how shocked, no: horrified, no: sad they were at this life-changing derailment. Anyone who didn't like it could shove their career ladder back into the basement!
It was, to put it with the Chancellor, disgusting. But apparently, the "Champagne Nazis" had released the pressure relief valve. The debate was not surprising: Germans have always been great at shifting blame to others: To the Germans of the past, to the Germans in the East, to the dependent Germans. Now it's the idiots from Kampen. The Nazis, that's the others. The valiant ones, that's us.
"That's why I love social media," writes a woman on TikTok, "within 24 hours, all the people from the Sylt video have been uncovered. We could all be private detectives." Very few data protection officers are speaking these days - but one can't really worry about everything.
The self-assurance of the gestures and some legal classifications don't quite match the actual injustice. The public prosecutor's office in Flensburg confirms an investigation. The sung slogans are punishable "solely due to the most recent verdict against Björn Höcke," regardless of how that relates to it. Whether anything about the incident in Kampen is punishable has been uncertain for some time. "Foreigners out" is offensive, but only punishable in specific circumstances. Drawing your fingers together to form a Hitler mustache under your nose is repulsive, but no one has ever greeted the leader - and if they did, it was only once. The indictments are not convincing.
What does the Sylt incident truly represent? For repulsive superiority, lack of education, contempt, wastefulness, degeneration, defiance, and potentially historical amnesia - in other words, various character flaws. For right-wing extremism? We currently know very little about it. Perhaps the person singing this "song" is merely making a sarcastic cross with a right-wing extremist party.
Maybe not. The culture of "Meme," or roughly speaking, the visual jokes on the internet, is complex, ever-changing, and difficult to understand from the outside due to its ironic twists. One can say: Anyone shouting "Foreigners out" is stuck with those words, "Meme" this or that. It's notable that Turkish-German football fans of Galatasaray Istanbul also sang this "song," alongside other revelers in Germany.
It's part of the irony of this event that it started with the aimless, TikTok-inspired cheering of a Nazi-fied version of a love song and ended with a unique German herd mentality. Herd, that's what we have in Germany! Maybe it was about something more mundane: Antipathy for Sylt and its snobs.
The Empathy Meter(TM) also provides information about whether a debate's contribution is not particularly timely. So it rarely rises if a taboo is not exploded by a mob on Sylt but by potentially violent milieus. Patience is advised here! At Berlin universities, there is a certain calmness compared to Sylt.
The president of the HU allows an anti-Semitic mob to run amok in her own premises and paints target markings of the Hamas (red triangles) on the walls until the black-red state government intervenes. The TU Berlin is still being led by a woman who "liked" a picture with "Netanyahu next to a swastika" and another post accusing Israel of genocide. She deleted everything and apologized.
Still, one can't help but wonder which group is more at risk - a foreigner in Kampen or a Jew at Berlin's universities. The federal president hasn't tuned in the TV after a quick glance at the news scroll. He also didn't comment when someone recently yelled on Alexanderplatz, "Destory all Israel supporters!" Maybe Steinmeier is just trying to avoid seeing a red triangle on his castle, which would look not so great - to put it lightly, quite disturbing.
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Following the public outrage over the 'Champagne Nazis' incident, Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his concern about the "corruption of political courtesy forms." Bundestagspräsidentin Bärbel Bas called for the "highest penalty," while Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz labeled the chants as "disgusting." Meanwhile, Right-wing extremism reared its head again, with some individuals chanting controversial slogans at events. Bärbel Bas, a prominent figure in German politics, has been vocal in her opposition to such behavior.
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