Naomi Seibt

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Naomi Seibt
YouTube channel ( new rights )
language German English
founding May 24, 2019 (main channel)
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Subscribers over 90,000 (main channel)
Calls over 2,249,000 (main channel)
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Naomi Seibt (born August 18, 2000 ) is a German Youtuber who became known for her position against public broadcasting and the denial of man-made climate change . She describes herself as a "climate realist" and claims that people's influence on the climate is marginal.

Life

Naomi Seibt attended St. Mauritz high school in Münster . In 2013, when she was eighth grader, Seibt achieved first place in the Münster regional competition organized by Jugend forscht in the pupils experiment age group in the field of physics and, together with a classmate, came second in the field of mathematics / computer science . In 2014 Seibt won the state competition of Jugend forscht in North Rhine-Westphalia in the field of chemistry as a ninth grader in the school experimenting age group . In 2017, at the age of sixteen, she passed her Abitur with a grade point average of 1.0. She then began studying economics in Mannheim , which she dropped out to take up distance learning in psychology .

According to a Facebook post from the Rhineland-Palatinate Regional Association of Young Alternative for Germany (JA) from 2019, Naomi Seibt is a member of the AfD youth organization, but according to her own information, not in the mother party.

From February to April 2020, according to her own statements, she worked for the pseudo-scientific American think tank The Heartland Institute , which denies man-made climate change and fights a global energy transition.

YouTube

Seibt started her YouTube channel in May 2019. According to Spiegel , she is spreading right-wing conservative theses in German and English. She agitated against public service broadcasting (which she referred to as the “state media”), abortion and sea ​​rescue . The YouTube channel is financed through donations, at the end of 2019 it had around 37,000 subscribers and their videos received up to 100,000 views.

According to the investigative platform Correctiv , Seibt was already supported in 2017 by David Berger , the operator of the right-wing blog Philosophia Perennis , in which she was able to publish a guest article on the subject of "nationalism". Shortly afterwards, the Identitarian Movement referred to an interview by Seibt on its blog. In July 2019, she was finally interviewed by Brittany Pettibone, now Sellner, then girlfriend and now wife of Martin Sellner . This shows the strategy of a “network” from the “sphere of the new right ” to build up “young talent” in order to “reach a young audience”. In one of her videos, according to the Guardian , she called Internet activist Stefan Molyneux, who is part of the white-nationalist alt-right scene, an “inspiration”. Her mother, the lawyer Karoline Seibt, denied the allegation that Seibt supports the extreme right. A short time later, in an interview, Seibt replied to a question whether she was inspired by Molyneux, she was “still a fan, absolutely”.

Research by Correctiv and the ZDF broadcast Frontal21 suggest that Seibt should “produce YouTube videos” for the Heartland Institute in order to “ prevent climate protection measures”. As a “young influencer ” she should be built up “to become the star of the scene” of the climate change deniers. The Washington Post also assumes that Seibt will be built by the Heartland Institute . According to the daily newspaper Die Presse , Seibt reacted to research by ZDF and Correctiv with a video entitled “How dare you” (a reference to Greta Thunberg ), in which she accused the investigative journalists of “breaching trust” and “denigrating”. In her contribution, Seibt emphasized that she would nevertheless “not let herself get down and be discouraged”.

Seibt was described by various media as "Anti-Greta", who represents opposing positions to Greta Thunberg. Among other things, the Washington Post points out that Seibt Thunberg is copying. Seibt, on the other hand, told Weltwoche that she did not want to be called “anti-Greta”, but instead warned against a “socialist dictatorship” in her contributions and advocated a “more direct democracy”. You describe yourself as " libertarian " and choose the alternative for Germany .

After the assassination attempt on the synagogue in Halle in 2019 , Seibt asserted in a discussion on YouTube that among the people who are considered oppressed in the public perception, Jews are at the top, "ordinary Germans" at the bottom and Muslims somewhere between. Seibt personally denied having made anti-Semitic statements and stated that she wanted to express that no distinction should be made between these groups. Imran Ahmed from the Center for Countering Digital Hate , however, found it obvious that Seibt was expressing age-old stereotypes of the alleged privilege of Jews; According to this view, whites are oppressed by Jews. Asked by Frontal 21 whether her statements could be understood as anti-Semitic, Seibt replied that if someone “perceives it as something different”, she “of course cannot influence this perception”. When asked by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Seibt stated that the attack in Halle was anti-Semitic and should be condemned, but that it was “wrong to only talk about Jewish victims” because there were “also German victims”. The theming of her statements in the media is "only the attempt by her opponents to brand her as an anti-Semite".

According to Florentin Schumacher in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the influence of the Youtuber, who is politically “ new right ”, should not be overestimated, as her videos have so far only generated “a few tens of thousands of clicks” on average.

She justified the end of her collaboration with the Heartland Institute by stating that various social media companies had terminated their accounts due to "lack of climate friendliness" and that the North Rhine-Westphalian state media authority had fined them $ 400 for the same reason . According to research by Thomson Reuters , this is not the case: Your social media channels were all active on May 21, 2020. She also claimed that the state media authority threatened to delete her accounts and fined her for spreading American conspiracy theories in cooperation with the Heartland Institute. In a response to a request from Reuters, the state media authority pointed out that it had not imposed a fine on Seibt. She only requested the deletion of two videos in which the Heartland Foundation was mentioned and referred to German media law, which prohibits topic placement for a fee.

Lectures

At the “International Climate and Energy Conference” of the AfD-affiliated European Institute for Climate & Energy ( EIKE ), Seibt reported in a lecture in November 2019 that she “used to be a 'climate alarmist' herself,” but then started, “a lot to question: feminism, 'cultural socialism' - and finally the '99 percent fairy tale 'of man-made climate change ”.

At the beginning of February 2020, Seibt gave a speech at a reception of the AfD in Münster, at the end of February 2020 she spoke at a side event of the Conservative Political Action Conference ( CPAC ) in the USA .

Publications

  • Nationalism and modern rights - actually harbingers of a new National Socialism? as well as value hierarchies and tolerance . Both in: #we are even more. Germany in turmoil . Edited by Hanno Vollenweider. Mühlenbecker Land: Power-Controls-Knowledge 2018 ISBN 978-3-945780-42-8 , pp. 288–290.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marcus Theurer: The Anti-Greta from Germany. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . March 10, 2020, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Abitur graduates from the St. Mauritz grammar school received their school leaving certificates. Dream grade 1.0 for four students. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . July 9, 2017, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ St. Mauritz High School: Successful young researchers. In: Westfälische Nachrichten . February 26, 2013, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Success in the state competition "Jugend forscht!"
  5. ↑ a b c d Carole Koch: The Anti-Greta: Naomi Seibt is the young star of the international climate denial scene. In: NZZ am Sonntag . February 8, 2020, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Heartland Lobby. In: Correctiv . February 4, 2020, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  7. ^ David Smith, 'Anti-Greta' teen activist to speak at biggest US conservatives conference. In: The Guardian . February 25, 2020, accessed February 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ PRESS RELEASE: German YouTube Personality Naomi Seibt Joins The Heartland Institute , Naomi Seibt, Jim Lakely, Heartland Institute website, February 14, 2020
  9. ↑ a b Fact check: Climate change skeptic Naomi Seibt was not banned from social media for her views and she is appealing a regulator's order to remove two videos , Reuters Fact Check, May 28, 2020
  10. ↑ K. Wiesner et al .: Stability of democracies: a complex systems perspective . In: European Journal of Physics . tape 40 , 2019, doi : 10.1088 / 1361-6404 / aaeb4d .
  11. ↑ a b Alice Echtermann: Wanted: Influencer, young, right. In: Correctiv . February 21, 2020, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  12. ↑ a b Susanne Götze , Annika Joeres : Right-wing US think tanks torpedo climate protection. The destroyers from overseas. In: Der Spiegel . December 18, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  13. ↑ a b c d Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Emily Holden: Naomi Seibt: 'anti-Greta' activist called white nationalist an inspiration. In: The Guardian . February 28, 2020, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Annie Karni: At CPAC, It's Now an All-Trump Show. In: The New York Times . February 28, 2020, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Christian Esser, Manka Heise, Katarina Huth, Jean Peters: Undercover with climate change deniers. The Heartland Institute strategy. In: Frontal21 . February 4, 2020, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  16. ↑ a b c Desmond Butler, Juliet Eilperin: Meet the anti-Greta: A young YouTuber campaigning against 'climate alarmism'. In: Washington Post . February 23, 2020, accessed February 25, 2020 .
  17. ↑ a b c Excitement about “Anti-Greta” Naomi Seibt. In: The press . February 24, 2020, accessed February 25, 2020 .
  18. ^ Anti-Greta: Far-right groups trying to turn teenager into climate change-denying version of Greta Thunberg. In: The Independent . February 24, 2020, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Nemi El-Hassan, Arndt Ginzel, Daniel Laufer: After the attack in Halle - perfidious slogans, abstruse conspiracies. In: Frontal21 . November 12, 2019, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Florentin Schumacher: Strategies of the new right. German: Don't eat potatoes! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 15, 2020, accessed February 15, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Philipp Bovermann: Denier of climate change. Doubtless doubts. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . November 24, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Seibt, Naomi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German YouTuber
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 2000