{"id":1761,"date":"2014-03-26T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/26-03-2014-the-rise-of-the-right-wing-populists\/"},"modified":"2022-07-27T07:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T06:48:57","slug":"26-03-2014-the-rise-of-the-right-wing-populists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/26-03-2014-the-rise-of-the-right-wing-populists\/","title":{"rendered":"26.03.2014 The rise of the right-wing populists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reinecke (2014) reports \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton the new upsurge of nationalist parties in Europe. Until now, their influence \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thas remained modest. However, especially in view of the forthcoming elections for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe European Parliament, a reversal-trend is looming. A strong growth of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnationalistically enclined voters has to be expected. In France, the share of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvotes for the National Front has already risen to 23 percent: \u201cAdmittedly, the conservatives and social democrats \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twill retain the majority in the European Parliament. But if extreme right-wing \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEuro-sceptics become the strongest party in a core state of the EU \u2013 then that \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tis a symbol. Something starts to slide: populism, fears of foreign domination \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand prosperity chauvinism become stronger.\u201d <\/em>Reinecke encourages not to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstand idly in the face of this swing to the right, but to take action against \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthose who question the free movement of persons and the European Economic zone. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne should not simply shrug in reaction to the vote against the free movement \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof persons by Switzerland. Concerning Rroma, he names the political \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinstrumentalisation of the ethnic group by right-wing publications such as the Weltwoche<\/em>, which has repeatedly stirred \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tup hatred against the minority. That such tendencies cannot be met with silence, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcan\u2019t be stressed often enough.<\/p>\n

Bade (2014) complements \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthese reflexions with his thoughts on the German immigration debate. He begins with \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe economic idea that the increasing impoverishment of the middle and lower \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclasses make more and more people susceptible to \u201cdefensive attitudes and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tscapegoat theories\u201d: \u201cIn this dangerous \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tm\u00e9lange of problems and prospects, pragmatic evaluations, integration and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsocio-political as well as socio-legal discussions are burdened by cultural and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsocio-racial defensiveness from the context of negative integration. They are enforced \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby the populist exploitation of yet unknown issues for election purposes.\u201d <\/em>Bade \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttherefore argues as Reinecke that the Rroma are exploited and abused by being \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdesigned as scapegoats for political debates about values and impoverishment. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt is significant here that one never talks with but always about the Rroma. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThrough this, a highly one-sided image of the minority is actively encouraged.<\/p>\n

Romani Rose, chairman of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe central council of the German Sinti and Rroma, emphasized in an interview \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith the S\u00fcdwest Presse<\/em> (2014) his \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tunease about the rise of right-wing groups and their modes of argumentation. He \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcriticizes once more the political instrumentalisation of the Rroma for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcampaign purposes and the equation of poverty-migration with the group of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma: \u201cThis is a harmful discussion. In \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe last federal election campaign they wanted to poach votes from the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tright-wing \u201eAlternative f\u00fcr Deutschland\u201c and the right-wing NPD. The NPD did not let itself \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tslow down by this and advertised with the slogan \u201cBetter money for grandma than \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfor Sinti and Roma\u201d. With this, it left the level of our constitutional order. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[…] We demand guidelines in the election campaigns, which prohibit racist and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdiscriminatory election propaganda. A legal basis is missing.\u201d<\/em> He perceives as \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tparticularly outrageous and frightening that despite the historical awareness \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof their discrimination, Rroma are blamed for social ills. The extreme right-wing \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tparties are said to want to undermine the state of law. That is why it is so \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timportant that democratic parties defend the rule of law. A considerable fear \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto identify oneself as Rroma in the public remains. This fear of disclosing \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tone\u2019s own origin is a clear indicator of the still strongly rooted reservations \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the majority against the minority.<\/p>\n