{"id":17793,"date":"2015-02-18T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17793"},"modified":"2015-02-18T13:56:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:56:37","slug":"dull-leftists-attack-pegida-with-snobbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17793","title":{"rendered":"Dull leftists attack Pegida with snobbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The views of the Stammtisch<\/em> [pub regulars] are a growing force in Germany. <\/p>\n

The new popular movement in Dresden \u2014 Pegida, or \u2018Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West\u2019 has highlighted intra-German divisions: not only those between immigrants and ethnic Germans but also those between most German voters and the country\u2019s small, vainglorious politically correct establishment.<\/p>\n

Lutz Bachmann, founder of anti-Islam movement Pegida, said on Monday that the group was ready to choose a candidate to run for Dresden city hall in June.<\/p>\n

As thousands once again flocked to the rally in the city, the fifteenth since the movement began last October, Bachmann said that there were three possible candidates, and the person selected would be introduced soon.<\/p>\n

Bachmann himself is out of the running, as he has a criminal record and was forced to step down from leading the group after “evidence of racist comments” he had made against immigrants emerged online. <\/p>\n

At the meeting, Bachmann also reported on a conference he had held with Pegida offshoots from different cities and put forward ten political demands under the title \u201cDresden Theses\u201d.<\/p>\n

One of the key points in the list is the immediate deportation of people whose asylum applications are rejected.<\/p>\n

Other cities saw smaller demonstrations by Pegida copycats on Monday, including Leipzig, Chemnitz, Magdeburg and \u2013 for the first time.<\/p>\n

In snobby and gay Berlin adherents are called Sachsenschweine <\/em>\u2014 Saxon pigs. It seems that dull leftists everywhere – including South Africa – believe insults, snobbery and vanity are actually arguments.<\/p>\n

As The Spectator<\/em> from January 31, 2015 reported:<\/p>\n

The French-Russian philosopher Alexandre Koj\u00e8ve was right to predict that, in a post-modern globalised world devoid of traditional values, the only remaining factor structuring society would be snobbery. When Kathrin Oertel, the de facto leader of Pegida, appeared on a chat show on 18 January, she was asked by the anchorman, \u2018Who are Pegida\u2019s supporters?\u2019 \u2018Ordinary people like you and me,\u2019 she replied. Quick as a flash, the presenter retorted, \u2018Like you, maybe. Like me, maybe not.\u2019 Seldom has a member of the media super-class spoken so lucidly.<\/p>\n

Snobbery was also the prime mover behind the great anti-Pegida concert organised by the Dresden city authorities on Monday night. One after another, ageing luvvies came on stage to express their contempt for the movement. \u2018Pegida is an uprising of stupid ignoramuses,\u2019 a 60-year-old rocker told the crowd to applause. The propaganda was grotesque: one Muslim woman claimed that immigrants now do not feel safe on the streets of the city \u2014 what tosh! \u2014 while a Spanish student at the university said that Pegida should learn to accept people from different backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Angela Merkel put on her glummest rainy-afternoon-in-Chemnitz face to give Pegida supporters a sound telling-off during her New Year\u2019s broadcast to the nation earlier this month. \u2018I say to those who go to these marches, don\u2019t follow these people! They have prejudices, coldness, even hatred in their hearts!\u2019 This is the same woman who, in 2010, wowed a room full of CDU young bloods with a full-frontal attack on uncontrolled immigration and multiculturalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The views of the Stammtisch [pub regulars] are a growing force in Germany. The new popular movement in Dresden \u2014 Pegida, or \u2018Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West\u2019 has highlighted intra-German divisions: not only those between immigrants and ethnic Germans but also those between most German voters and the country\u2019s small, vainglorious politically … Continue reading “Dull leftists attack Pegida with snobbery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[11032,51,1064,7141,10685,11033,11034,11035],"class_list":["post-17793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-alexander-kojeve","tag-germany","tag-immigration","tag-leftists","tag-pegida","tag-russian-philosopher","tag-snobbery","tag-super-class"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17797,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions\/17797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}