Tick ​​(swear word)

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Tick , often also in the plural tick , is a term that originated and used in Germany's right-wing extremist environment, with which people who think differently are devalued and insulted, especially leftists and punks .

In the ideology of today's right-wing extremism, so-called ticks are among the main enemy images and are considered "non-Germans in ideology and culture". The devaluation of people as ticks , so parasites , builds on the in the language of Nazism common animal metaphors to. The terms “ pests of the people ” and “ Jewish parasites ” were widespread under National Socialism . These pest metaphors are also widespread in right-wing extremist music today and can also be interpreted as indirect requests to kill. Violent acts by right-wing extremists were often referred to as "clapping ticks".

Within the punk or rap scene, the term is sometimes used as a self-designation in the sense of a Geusen word . The punk bands Se Sichelzecken and ESA-Zecken made the swear word part of their names.

In recent years the term tick has been used as a self-designation in the musical genre tick rap and has been popularized there. Even with some fans of the FC St. Pauli football club , especially in the ultra scene, they say “We are ticks” in their chants.

In July 2019, in the wake of the Sea-Watch 3 affair and its intrusion into the port of Lampedusa, Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini insulted German captain Carola Rackete as a “German tick” at a Lega party in Barzago .

Web links

Wiktionary: Zecke  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Reiner Erb: Ideological borrowings, historical images and symbols of right-wing extremist youth groups - "neo-Nazis" and "skinheads". In: Uwe Backes (Ed.): Right-wing extremist ideologies in past and present (= writings of the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research. Vol. 23). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 3-412-03703-6 , pp. 289–309, here p. 304.
  3. ↑ Bernd Wagner: On dealing with right-wing extremism and racism in the new federal states. In: From Politics and Contemporary History. Vol. 39, 2000, ISSN  0479-611X , pp. 30-39.
  4. ↑ z. B. in the text of the song “Du bist Stolz” by the group Kraftschlag from the indexed record Despite Ban is not Dead (1992), compare: Klaus Farin : “We'll see each other again in Walhalla…” right-wing rock. In: Klaus Farin (Ed.): The Skins. Myth and Reality. Links, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86153-136-4 , pp. 213-243, here pp. 226-227.
  5. ^ Peter Schlobinski : On the use of language by right-wing radical music groups. In: German lessons. Vol. 59, No. 5, 2007, ISSN  0340-2258 , pp. 67-75.
  6. ↑ Helmut Heitmann: The Skinhead Study. In: Klaus Farin (Ed.): The Skins. Myth and Reality. Links, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86153-136-4 , pp. 69-95, here p. 85.
  7. ↑ Klaus N. Frick : Long live punk Vol. 5 . Ox-Fanzine issue 64.
  8. ↑ a b Zeckenrap: When ticks rap . In: Noisey . September 23, 2014 ( vice.com [accessed April 13, 2018]).
  9. ↑ 1910Hoschi: Indoor tournament 2010 - Ultrà Sankt Pauli - We are ticks ... January 25, 2010, accessed on April 13, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Salvini is abusive against Carola Rackete. Die Welt, July 19, 2019.
  11. ^ Matteo Salvini: "Pure la zecca tedesca mi ha denunciato"