Hate speech and radicalized emotions
"Fortress Europe?! Analyzing the "Shameless Normalization" of Far-Right Populist Discourse about Migration and Asylum
Much research illustrates that formerly taboo subjects and expressions in mainstream discourse are being accepted more and more ("normalization") and have become part and parcel of mainstream politics (Bevelander & Wodak 2019; Wodak 2021). Such normalization goes hand in hand with a certain "shamelessness": the limits of the sayable are shifting regarding both the frequency of lies (Block 2019) and the violating of discourse and politeness conventions - as well as regarding repeated attacks on salient democratic institutions. Discursive strategies of provocation, blame avoidance, denial, manichean division, victim-perpetrator reversal as well as eristic argumentation and conspiracy theories dominate official communication, accompanied by ever more nativist nationalism and the racialization of space. For example, normalizing the assessment of migrants and refugees (all labeled as "illegal migrants") as a threat to inner security, a burden on the welfare state and education system must be perceived as an international development - generally instrumentalizing a "politics of fear" and reinforcing a "coarse civility" [rohe Bürgerlichkeit](@Heitmeyer 2019).
