Now the Left has come full circle: no more social issues, please, this is something the right-wing does, preparing the way for the resurgence of 'national socialism'
Great catch about Jenny Klauninger. Yeah, that's the sort of thing that "journalists" do. They put two facts next to each other (tore a flag; got a suspended sentence), strongly implying that they're related, even though they aren't.
They even do it in very small things, where you really wouldn't expect them to. Want my favorite example, courtesy of the NYT?
"Croft, the translator of Ukrainian literature, announced last summer that she would no longer translate works if her name didn’t appear on the cover — as it didn’t with her translation of the 2018 novel “Flights,” by the Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk."
Okay, reading comprehension question: What language does Olga Tokarczuk write in? [Hint: Not Ukrainian.]
Olga Tokarczuk is Polish and writes exclusively in Polish. I know that because I happen to have read a couple of her books recently, though of course, a 10 sec Google search would have told you as much. But anyway, it's ludicrous. They write an opinion piece about literary translation, and they cannot resist inserting "support for Ukraine" by - do you call it lying? I suppose they would say "But look, it's true, Croft translates from Ukrainian, and Tokarczuk did win the Nobel Prize, so nothing we said was false!" Right. That's "journalism" now.
“The first infection in Austria had occurred less than two months earlier when the first anti-mandate protests were gathering. … Then, however, there is the mass of people often represented at protests who embed their views in conspiracy theories …”
It seems likely to me (perhaps epimethius can confirm or refute) that when those “first anti-mandate protests were gathering,” presumably no later than mid-2020, the very premise that there would be vaccine mandates was dismissed by Der Standard writers and readers as a “conspiracy theory.” It certainly was by their counterparts in respectable opinion in the U.S.
Great catch about Jenny Klauninger. Yeah, that's the sort of thing that "journalists" do. They put two facts next to each other (tore a flag; got a suspended sentence), strongly implying that they're related, even though they aren't.
They even do it in very small things, where you really wouldn't expect them to. Want my favorite example, courtesy of the NYT?
"Croft, the translator of Ukrainian literature, announced last summer that she would no longer translate works if her name didn’t appear on the cover — as it didn’t with her translation of the 2018 novel “Flights,” by the Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/opinion/translator-credit-cover.html
Okay, reading comprehension question: What language does Olga Tokarczuk write in? [Hint: Not Ukrainian.]
Olga Tokarczuk is Polish and writes exclusively in Polish. I know that because I happen to have read a couple of her books recently, though of course, a 10 sec Google search would have told you as much. But anyway, it's ludicrous. They write an opinion piece about literary translation, and they cannot resist inserting "support for Ukraine" by - do you call it lying? I suppose they would say "But look, it's true, Croft translates from Ukrainian, and Tokarczuk did win the Nobel Prize, so nothing we said was false!" Right. That's "journalism" now.
“The first infection in Austria had occurred less than two months earlier when the first anti-mandate protests were gathering. … Then, however, there is the mass of people often represented at protests who embed their views in conspiracy theories …”
It seems likely to me (perhaps epimethius can confirm or refute) that when those “first anti-mandate protests were gathering,” presumably no later than mid-2020, the very premise that there would be vaccine mandates was dismissed by Der Standard writers and readers as a “conspiracy theory.” It certainly was by their counterparts in respectable opinion in the U.S.
Sowing the seeds of their very own destruction.
Keep warm, Austrians - especially those brave ones who resisted the forced vaccination!
there will be no rise in the number of nazi's in far right parties.
a true nazi has long since been part of the Gruenen.
gruen from the outside, brown from the inside...