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Originally Posted by Argos

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How little you know about Austrian politics. Your anti-semite regularly visits his numerous Jewish friends at the East-Coast. Haider is no far-right no extremist no antisemite. He is only a lyer, a demagoge, a cheap little parasite, who abuses the fears of people in a small country, who have to live at the borders which devide rich western europe from poor eastern europe. He has no own opinions, he only has his ears at the asses of the 'little people', so he can hear every fart. And by the way, he is still in coalition and hopefully no longer after the election this October.

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I don't care who's opinion he endorses... he's a politician - politicians do exactly what you describe - exploiting people's fears and expectations to gain support. He's still widely seen as a far-right extremist and a known anti-semite. For god sakes, Israel even called off their ambassador from Austria after a coalition was formed with Heider in it. Let me not even go into specific statements he made which were at the least quasi-nazi if not full-out anti-semite. There are plenty of those. I couldn't give a damn if he's not really an antisemite in his own personal convictions. All I see is his public persona which certainly shows it. That's all I need in that respect.
And trust me - I know enough about the guy and Austrian foreign policies, mostly since good ol' Jörg's been an active participant in breaching rights of Slovene national minority in Austrian Carinthia, by exploiting loop holes and riding waves of national intolerance among (some) native Austrian citizens in Carinthia.