Prejudice based on someone's race or skin color. - D'Agostino's song will not be allowed during Oktoberfest.
Because of the adding of conservative lyrics, the organizers of Oktoberfest are hesitant to play the song "Forever Love" at all. "We'll ban it and I'll ban it," said Oktoberfest head Clemens Baumgärtner to the German Press Agency about the track by Italian DJ Gigi D'Agostino. "There's no room for right-wing rubbish at Oktoberfest." According to the "Münchner Merkur," this was previously reported.
The song itself isn't right-wing radical, but it's taken on a "very clear right-wing radical connotation," said Baumgärtner. The terms of Oktoberfest allow for the prohibition of such statements or content. Oktoberfest is described as a "casual and lovely" event with numerous international guests. Right-wing slogans have been stopped in the past and should not occur in the future. "Oktoberfest is apolitical."
The song is frequently used for racist slurs. In the past few days, a video has caused outrage that depicts visitors in a bar on Sylt screaming "Foreigners out" and "Germany for Germans" to the beat of the party track "Foreigners out." The state protection is investigating. Two visitors of a festival in Erlangen shouted racist phrases to the same song on Friday night. At a Pentecost festival in the Upper Palatinate, it's said that spectators yelled "Foreigners out" while the song was being played.
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Source: www.stern.de
