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“Die Getriebenen” schliddern auf abschüssigem Gelände, aber wirkliche Überzeugungstäter sind wenige von ihnen. Illusionen, denen sich sich bis vor kurzem hingaben, verlieren nach und nach ihre Anhänger. Die Triebkräfte der Zerstörung Europas sitzen in humanitären Hetzmedien und zu Verfassungs- und Völkerrecht geronnener Humanitärfrömmelei, wobei aktivistische Richter vielleicht noch zerstörerischer wirken als angenommen. “Das Eis ist 3 Fuß dick und nicht nur einen Tag kalt”, sagt das chinesische Sprichwort. Die Zerstörung Europas wurde 1967 mit dem Protokoll über die Rechtstellung der Flüchtlinge in die Wege geleitet. Die finstere Entschlossenheit, das darin enthaltene universele Nichtzurückweisungsprinzip gnadenlos auch ohne den Vorbehalt des Gebietskontaktes umzusetzen, reifte aber erst im letzten Jahrzehnt heran.

2018 KW07: 02.12-18

Am Samstag den 17. findet in Berlin der Frauenmarsch statt.

2018 KW06: 02.05-11

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Humanitarian Bigotry in the New York Times

New York Times readers are paying money for smear campaigns rather than for real information. One example is the portrayal of Matteo Salvini, president of the “populist” Italian “League” party. In the article, Jason Horowitz collects all the smear elements he can find in order to create an association of the League to if not fascism then at least a slippery slope toward it. As in most such articles, of which Horowitz has published a lot in the NYT, we also find proximity to Vladimir Putin as one of the gratuitous charges, and the article starts out with the fact that a recent killer of a nigerian killer was a Lega member. What we don’t find is a realistic portrayal of Salvini’s campaign, and even less so any mention of eurocritical intellectuals like Prof. Alberto Bagnai who have recently joined his bandwagon.

Basically the NYT seems to favor partisanship over information even more nowadays than a decade ago. In the same edition of 5th of February, which I sometimes read in a hotel here in Munich, I also found a humanitarian propaganda attack against the Israeli policy of expelling African migrants, written from a jewish religious viewpoint. The migrants were of course called “refugees”, although it should be clear that (1) they are mostly not real refugees in the legal sense of the word (2) Israel can not accomodate any meaningful share of the huge number of real refugees that Africa produces, and (3) the NYT would be among the first to protest if these “refugees” were to be settled on the West Bank. The overall line of the NYT seems to be one of favoring feel-good ethics of responsibility ethics, at least where the welfare and integrity of nations is concerned.

The editorial piece of Paul Krugman, which vociferously argues against President Trump and Republican tax cuts, made reasonable observations. It is obvious that, as Krugman points out, the Republicans are not standing on the side of fiscal sanity. Instead they may be part of a civil war, where Democrats help monetization of the suffrage, delivering welfare in return for votes, whereas Republicans sabotage this “redistributive democracy” as far as they can. This is probably just what you end up with when your population is split between too unequal and unsolidarious groups. If you want to avoid this kind of social division, then do not import it, neither into Italy nor into Israel. Samuel Huntington warned against this outcome in his last book “Who are we”, which was of course smeared by the New York Times. The division behind the Trump victory is, as Japanese correspondent ITO Kan has been pointing out, precisely what Huntington saw coming.

The NYT seems to be embracing its demise like Süddeutsche Zeitung and others in Germany. Rather than accepting the challenge of the Internet competition and striving to provide its readers the very best information, they are cultivating their echo chamber ever more resolutely. As some have pointed out, the echo chamber itself is of value to third parties, who may be paying more than the remaining readers. There is a demand even from some readers to be provided pious rather than true information. Maintenance of an atmosphere of harmony and conformity continues to be a strong market force, and perhaps even more so in the New Economy, where few pay for reading. The difference is that intermediaries such as these saloons have lost importance.

2018 KW05: 02.01-04

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