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    Useless Member Member Fixiwee's Avatar
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    Default The story of a beautiful country gone bad

    This thread is about an article I have found on the net. It describes one of the biggest problems of this country (Austria) as it is. The article has a few flaws but in generall reflects the issue. It is quite long, so be prepared to read a while if you are interessted. I will not add much to it, but I hope that some sort of discussion will start, even though I presume not many people will read it to the end. (What is perfectly understandable though).

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/mosl...m-Austria.html

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    I read through the political positions of all Austrian parties before their last election, and I wouldn't call the Freedom Party neo-Nazi. They're certainly not as extreme as the BNP. Far-right, sure, but neo-Nazi, I don't think so.

    EDIT: That's not to say that neo-Nazis don't support them sometimes, but I'm talking about the party itself.

    EDIT2: And Burschenschaften aren't neo-Nazi by any stretch of the term. Maybe that is different in Austria, but here they most certainly are not. Liberal nationalism is not, not, not neo-Nazism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars View Post
    I read through the political positions of all Austrian parties before their last election, and I wouldn't call the Freedom Party neo-Nazi. They're certainly not as extreme as the BNP. Far-right, sure, but neo-Nazi, I don't think so.

    EDIT: That's not to say that neo-Nazis don't support them sometimes, but I'm talking about the party itself.

    EDIT2: And Burschenschaften aren't neo-Nazi by any stretch of the term. Maybe that is different in Austria, but here they most certainly are not. Liberal nationalism is not, not, not neo-Nazism.
    Yeah the Burschenschaften mentioning is one of the biggest flaws of the article. But some Burschenschaften have strong tendencies to nazism though.

    The Freedom Party is not neo-Nazi, that's clear because it would be against the current law. But the problem is that many things the party leader says have such tendency to sublim nazi massages. Many people in the party are considered from ultra-right winded to neo-nazism by the DÖW. The problem with the party is far more complex then the article could demonstrate. But for people who have absolutley no clue it offers an interessting first insight, even though it is innacurate and populistic in some areas.

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    Default Re: The story of a beautiful country gone bad

    Such open flirts are suspect to say the least.

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