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Following the crisis and humiliation after the First World War, the Nazi regime saw in the youth a fertile ground to sow its criminal, authoritarian and destructive ideology. He used mass propaganda intensively and directed it specifically at them, the young people, even from childhood.
In Germany in the 1930s, education in schools left language, mathematics, history and natural sciences in second place in importance, and instead instilled hatred of the “enemy” and racial anti-Semitism, while the image of Adolf Hitler was established as that of a leader who protected his nation through the systematic eradication not only of those who thought differently, but also of those who had physical features different from what was sold as a “superior race.”
That speech achieved a blind loyalty signed with a collective oath to dedicate the energies of young Germans to the service of Hitler, and with it to a regime, the Nazi, that through discrimination orchestrated the persecution and genocide of millions of people considered “inferior.”
Currently, 80 years after the end of the Second World War, neo-Nazi groups are formed and operate with factors similar to those conceived by Hitler and continued until 1945 by Baldur von Schirach and Artur Axmann. Scapegoats are created for social or personal problems, the population is radicalized and propaganda is spread through the Internet and social networks to build sectarian communities.
To achieve identification, you must first create identity: this defines and differentiates a person or community. Young people, in their constant search for identification, are susceptible to being victims of the manipulator, who identifies their insecurities and vulnerable points to, through the imposition of an identity, control the behavior, emotions and decisions of a victim who, as often happens, ends up becoming the victimizer.
In post-neoliberal Mexico, today a group of old politicians, plagued by those old tricks, jump from the stale X that they used in the organizations of the franchise of the “toxic junior of the oligarchy”, also known as Claudio
Behind the march of Generation Z there are not young people belonging to this generation, but rather old PRI members, as the research by the author of the newsletter weekly on the Internet, Áyax, titled “Who is behind the mobilizations of Generation Z? Spoiler: it’s the PRI and I brought evidence.”
In his work, the author points out that the first alarm signal he found was the coordinated dissemination by right-wing accounts of videos that talk about young people, but no young people appear in the frame, which led him to investigate until he detected evidence that the so-called Generation Z Mexico Movement is linked to the PRI.
The march of Generation Z does not represent the majority of young people between 12 and 29 years of age in Mexico. Do those who usurped the Z name for political activity consider the nearly 3 million young beneficiaries of the Youth Building the Future program? To the thousands of National Servants who crossed swollen rivers on foot in five states affected by the rains to bring support to the population last month? To millions who, without being Morena militants, protest as young people without political bias in their complaints and demands?
The call for the protest that usurps the name of Generation Z also appropriates a legitimate complaint and an urgent demand. It arises after the murder of the mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, and aims to attract sympathizers by demanding an end to the violence. Who could disagree with the above? The organizers know that no one.
It is through this denunciation and this demand that opportunism seeks to find in tragedy the instrument to amplify ominous voices and convey the repudiation of the 4T governments or President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Something not good happens with a young man who does not protest, who is satisfied; It would imply that he does not observe injustices or delays. Protest is mandatory in the healthy behavior of a young person, it is part of their development.
But critical judgment too. When a call to protest is opportunistic and manipulative, if it uses a legitimate complaint to engage in politicking, if it uses the name of justice in vain, then it is not a protest, it is sectarian activism, just like what Hitler did with the Nazi youth.
