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Youtubers are against xenophobia

Toleranzoffensive in the network: A collective of Videobloggern continues with the campaign #YouGeHa against prejudice and a Syrian refugee makes the Internet Community through its eyes on Germany look.

“Hello people, and ugly… Welcome to my first Video for you!” In broken English and with a well thought-out Freudian slip of the tongue, welcomed the Syrian filmmaker Firas Alshater the YouTube community for the first Film of his web series, “Zukar”, on German sugar. The 24-Year-old wants to find out how this country ticks, in which he two years ago as a refugee has come. Let’s go with a basic question: Who exactly are these German?

Waiting for a hug

In his Video he shows pictures of Pegida demonstrators and people who are “Refugees Welcome”Banner intrusion may bear. They show the opinions of The Germans are far apart. But what of this Germany between the Extremes? Alshater makes the self-test: He introduces himself with a blindfold on the Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte, next to a sign with the inscription “I am a Syrian refugee. I trust you – you Trust me? Embrace me!” Then he waits. And wait.

FunFact: Zukar is funnier than von Storch and Petry TOGETHER!https://t.co/bLNYr41tXP#zukar #AfD

— Phi Lambda (@lastinlaw) 31. January 2016

In Syria was Alshater as a Videojournalist and Systemkritiker known. For his recordings he was again and again arrested, he says in a DW Interview. He now lives since two years in Berlin. And continues to fight: against the Regime in Syria and for the mutual acceptance of German and refugees. “All people living in Germany, will have to see how they deal with each other,” he says. “With Humor, we bring people together so they understand each other.”

Be the first Clip of the series “Zukar” was on 02.02.15 on YouTube already of 82,000 Times. The Internet community celebrates the Syrian youtubers are for his wit and his valuable message, which also violates the rights of baiting in the Internet.

Against prejudices and Stereotypes

At the latest, since in the summer more and more people in Germany for refuge from the Wars of their homelands words, poison xenophobic Statements of the atmosphere of the social networks. Often, the comments on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter are not deleted and the User in this manner, unfiltered with a racist ideology confronted.

About 40 video bloggers, including
LeFloid and MrWissen2Go, fight back against this Trend. With the action “youtubers are against hate” do you want to with prejudices around the issues of immigration, xenophobia and Islam to clean up. Under the Hashtag #YouGeHa upload Videos in which they report, classify, or satirical comment.

“For every Hasstyp what”

Youtubers are Ben Bode takes on his Blog, “so-and-So saw” the hatred as such. When he wanted a cell phone contract to sell, asks Bode to the audience in a commercial manner: “You have quite a lot of anger in the belly and don’t know where to put it?” And offers the solution: an All-inclusive Hasspaket. And the promise: “for every Hasstyp what.” For men with Selbstbewusstseinsproblemen recommend the package “Frauenfeind”. The package “Islamist”, in turn, requires no theological knowledge, but merely the willingness, not too much to want to think.

In his Video, “Dare to hate” goes youtubers are Ben Bode the question: what to do with all the anger in your stomach?

He tried, discriminatory groups, to identify and to take the Mickey, explains Ben Bode in the DW-Interview. In the debate about rights agitation in the net he looks for bloggers to have a special responsibility: “What we as youtubers are making, is an expression of freedom of speech, something that we of our social Constitution owe. Everyone needs to worry about whether he is the society, not something to be guilty.” As youtubers are, collectively, would have the initiators of #YouGeHa the possibility of their range to combine and thus more attention to manufacture, adds Bode.

“Where is this ‘hate’ to buy?”

So it has no racist Pöbler, the Video of “so-and-So seen” comment. Video bloggers MrWissen2go writes: “Where there is this ‘hate’ to buy? Sounds good.” Thereafter, when a user replies ironically: “now available at your Stammtisch on the spot or at any time and anywhere in the network.” The scene is agree. Also, Ben Bode explains, the response to his Video was almost all positive. There remains the question: Do the youtubers are also those who hate the net spread?

Finally: Firas Alshater receives from a Berlin passers-by, the longed-for embrace

Firas Alshater is assured. “Even people who are against foreigners, have written to me: ‘You have made me Laugh, and I look forward to the next episode.'” Ben Bode is a bit of a different opinion: “our target audience are often not those who at the end of rush.” He wanted to be but not only those. “Recently, I have read all of This right baiting is just so loud to hear, because the Sincere, so quiet. That is why it is just right, these people motivate you to raise your voice.”

The Sincere, often universalistic so-called gooders, winning finally in Alshaters Clip the upper hand. Finally embracing a first Brave young Syrians. And then another one. And yet another one. “When the Germans start with something, then you hear nothing more,” expressed Alshater surprised. His conclusion: The Germans need more time – but at some point you are no longer to stop. For Alshater can only mean: “The Integration will work – eventually.”