The tune is “fully innocent” and on the whole any tune might be “misused by significantly silly individuals,” she defined to the APA on Sunday.
Mikl-Leitner referred to the various summer season festivals presently going down and the unsure organizers. Many individuals benefit from the tune: “No one is immediately a nasty individual as a result of they play this tune or dance to it. No one actually must be persuaded of that,” stated Mikl-Leitner. The truth that it has been misused is “despicable,” and we’ve to make these individuals really feel that. Nevertheless it’s primarily regarding displaying civil braveness in the direction of individuals like that.”
She believes that banning it at festivals and on the radio is a mistake, as a result of on the similar time “anti-Semitic slogans are being chanted on the streets and a few are calling for a caliphate.” Bans might shortly backfire, the governor fears, as extra innocent songs can be misused: “In the long run, the silly individuals will resolve which songs might be performed and which can’t. And we must always not give them that energy.”
