Organizers of the world-famous Oktoberfest in Munich will not allow the song “L’Amour Toujours” to be played at the beer festival after a series of incidents where crowds in Germany shouted far-right chants to the melody of the decades-old pop tune.
“We want to ban it and I will ban it,” Oktoberfest boss Clemens Baumgärtner told dpa on Monday with regard to the song by Italian DJ Gigi D’Agostino.
“There’s no place for all that right-wing bullshit at the Wiesn,” he said, referring to the Theresienweise fairgrounds where Oktoberfest is held each year
The song itself does not contain any right-wing extremist content, but it has taken on “very clear right-wing extremist connotations” in Germany in recent months, said Baumgärtner.
Several ugly incidents involving racist chants to the song have caused outrage in Germany after videos went viral online. Police in several German states have also launched criminal investigations on suspicion of incitement to hatred.
A video of revellers outside a pub on the chic, exclusive North Sea island of Sylt shouting “Foreigners out – Germany for Germans” to the tune of the party hit has prompted condemnation and nationwide headlines.
Public sentiment, as expressed in songs like this, is the heart and soul of all politics. In fact, public sentiment is the only politics we have left today. Everything else is lost or never was. Elections and news are fraudulent, politicians bribed puppets, history a fairytale, policies nothing but decrees from the shadows that actually rule the West. I hope Germans sing their hearts out. Other forms of politically beneficial public sentiment are not taking yet another booster, booing a male trans athlete who wins a girls competition, not buying electric cars, actually researching climate change, remembering that all recent wars have been based on obvious lies, at least noticing the horrific slaughter not only in Gaza but also Ukraine. ABN
American Buddhist Net 