Vested interests

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Vet holder is a polemical personal designation. The word is used exclusively derogatory and as an attempt to insult.

Groups that are accused of defending themselves against cuts in state benefits are called vested interests. But increasingly wealthy society will this term rather characterizes the fears kolportieren to lose with social design of distribution policy parts of their livings.

Austria

Because of the frequent use in Austrian politics in 2003 in connection with the reform policy of the Schüssel government , “vested rights keeper” was voted the unword of the year 2003 by the Karl Franzens University in Graz .

The word is derived from "keeping the property" and was originally used neutrally to describe noble ownership. According to the jury of the Karl-Franzens-University, the expression of maintaining the status quo was described in this context as a socially recognized behavior. The bad word of the year was “vigilante” because the word “perpetrator-victim role was reversed”: “The term is currently used by those who have property to denote them as 'preventers of reform' and 'knight of privileges' denigrate those who actually have no property and only object to the fact that their pension or their wages are reduced or their working conditions are deteriorated, ”said the jury. That is why “vested rights” is a classic bad word.

The regular use of the word by the ÖVP to denote the unions critical of the government began when the then Federal President Thomas Klestil told an ÖGB meeting in October 2003 that the ÖGB was not an obstacle to modern economic and social policy, but a "social conscience" . For the ÖVP, Klestil took the side of the ÖGB in terms of criticism of the government, which always accused the government of social cuts and socially cold policies. Thereupon ÖVP club chairman Wilhelm Molterer said that Klestil would support the “vested interests” - he meant the unions. This created a word that was often used in the following months by the ÖVP in press releases and political statements to denote the unions. Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel said in an interview with the Kleine Zeitung : “It is difficult when it comes to acquisitions. And it hurts when someone like the Federal President mercilessly takes the side of the vested interests. "

The SPÖ and other parties subsequently took up the word to offend their political competitors. After the election for the bad word of the year, the use of the word soon had a bad reputation: politicians avoid throwing "bad words" around. It is therefore rarely used in everyday political communication, but it still has its place in everyday language.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Bathen, Josefine Sporer, Eva Deinert, Martin Haiss: Duden - The new dictionary of scene languages . Ed .: Peter Wippermann. 1st edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-411-71092-8 .
  2. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten , December 18, 2003, p. 13.
  3. ↑ Reason for the Austrian nonsense 2003 ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the KFU Graz, accessed on April 8, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www-oedt.kfunigraz.ac.at
  4. ↑ Kleine Zeitung , October 27, 2003, p. 2.
  5. ↑ “Why pronunciation?” Cap defends Klestil . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . October 29, 2003, Politics ( article archive ).