exit-germany pulls awsome stunt at NPD-festival

[Sasha]

you know how the german neo-nazi party NPD tries to lure in young kids by handing out free cd's on school and organizing free festivals?
seems EXIT (an organization devoted to prying these kids back out) found the most awesome way to boomerang that tactic:


Trojan T-Shirt of the Day (http://thedailywh.at/2011/08/10/trojan-t-shirt-of-the-day/)

Aug. 10, 2011


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Trojan T-Shirt of the Day: An ostensibly pro-nationalist T-shirt handed out to attendees at an NPD-sponsored right-wing music festival in Gera, Germany, was actually a “Trojan Tee” designed to reveal an anti-Nazi message when washed (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,779446,00.html).
“What your T-shirt can do, so can you – we’ll help you break with right-wing extremism,” reads the post-wash tee, crafted by the left-wing group Exit Deutschland (http://www.exit-deutschland.de/) — an organization that “helps people get out of the neo-Nazi scene.”
“With these T-shirts, we aimed to make ourselves known among right-wingers,” Exit founder Bernd Wagner told AFP (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14465150), “especially among young ones who are not yet fully committed to the extreme right.”
[spiegel (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,779446,00.html) / bbc (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14465150).]
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[¿Que?]

Fucking genius! I don't know what else to say. I'd love to get my hands on one of those T shirts, too.

[Revolutionair]

Too bad nazis don't wash.

[danyboy27]

Too bad nazis don't wash.

if you would have read psycho post you would have understood that this action is aimed at young kids not fully concious of what fascism is, not hardcore facsist.

[Revolutionair]

Well people who are not hardcore fascist don't really need much help breaking with fascism, as they don't have that many fascist friends. It depends on how you interpret it, I guess.

[Rusty Shackleford]

love it love it love it!

[Sasha]

best thing is the NPD themselves handed them out, EXIT created an fake nazi-distro, contacted the npd and gave them the 250 shirt for for free, big chance that lots of the NPD cadre kept one for themselves.
makes the NPD look even stupider and no danger for the exit people getting recognized at the spot and assaulted.
well thought through, brilliantly executed

[Luc]

Ha, Thats brilliant! Brightened my day.

Is that the main tactic of recruiting by Neo-Nazis? and is this form of recruiting in others countries like U.S or Canada?

[Sasha]

Is that the main tactic of recruiting by Neo-Nazis?

in a sense, since blood&honour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_and_Honour) the main recruiting ground of neo-nazi groups always been the white-power music scene but even before that, even in the days of hitlers SA its initial attraction was uniforms, friendship, drinking, singing and aggro before politics and there are more than a few similarities between ian stuart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Stuart_Donaldson) and horst wessel
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Wessel)

and is this form of recruiting in others countries like U.S or Canada?

yes: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/12/10/they%E2%80%99re-back-racist-music-sampler-to-be-distributed-to-schools/

[danyboy27]

Well people who are not hardcore fascist don't really need much help breaking with fascism, as they don't have that many fascist friends. It depends on how you interpret it, I guess.

Fascist and right winger group attract a lot of young kid without friends and easy to impress.

One of the method they use is to give away fascist litterature, t-shirt and Music cd.

attacking those mean of propagation sound like a good move.

[Luc]

How exactly could we go about attacking them... I mean their merch and propaganda?

[Sasha]

one established effective tactic has been the sabotaging of their concerts which next to being the nazi's main recruiting ground is also their biggest cash cow, so if you manage to cancel the concert you cut them of from both.
and if it happens on the last moment, which is mostly the case, they loose the money they spend on their downpayment for the venue, coaches, bands etc etc
the key to this always has been good intelligence work, in general the venue owner is not aware of the content of the booking it being done under an false story so an phone call is often enough to get the gig cancelled.
but sometimes its necessary to blockade the gig physically like during this recent danish action (http://www.revleft.com/vb/nazi-concert-foiled-t159265/index.html) or the famous battle of waterloo station in london (http://www.redaction.org/anti-fascism/it_woz_afa.html)

sadly in the US, belgium and Italy often these concerts are in personally owned or nazi friendly venues which makes this a lot harder to counter.

in the case of merch if printed/pressed by mainstream businesses naming and shaming often does the trick but nazi-friendly or nazi-owned printers and warehouses are also known to spontaneously burn down with an certain regularity.

one of the most important things is to prevent them to become mainstream (acceptable), to keep them in their niche and tarnished, the explosion of nazi-violence in england in the 80's and germany in the 90's coincided with mainstream involvement in the nazi movement, their decline with them being kicked back in the closet, sadly the internet made publicizing, organization etc way easier, it is no chance that stormfront was among the very first bulletinboards on the internet.

[∞]

Trolling at it's finest.

[mas16]

thats great

hopefully some of those people see sence