“Everything Goes Against the German Here!” Self-Victimising Discourse in Comments on Migration-Related Posts on the Alternative für Deutschland Facebook Page

Abstract

Everything goes against the German here!" : self-victimising discourse in comments on migration-related posts on the Alternative für Deutschland Facebook page Book or Report Section Accepted VersionSchroeter, Melani ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9636-245X (2022) "Everything goes against the German here!" : self-victimising discourse in comments on migrationrelated posts on the Alternative für Deutschland Facebook page. In: Monnier, Angeliki, Boursier, Axel and Seoane, Annabelle (eds.

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“…The present article was prompted by previous work in two ways. First, and more immediately, I collected user comments from migration-related Facebook posts by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) from the central AfD Facebook page to write about the self-victimising discourse that occurs in these user comments in the context of online hate speech (Schröter 2022). Second, I had already published a few contributions looking into the metadiscourse about silence and silencing in public discourse perpetuated by the political right in Germany (Schröter 2015(Schröter , 2019a(Schröter , b, c, 2021.…”