Aktion Tu Was is the federal police campaign that has urged “Zeig Zivilcourage” since 2001. Relaunched in 2019 with a youth-friendly redesign, the website offers six basic rules – stay alert, call the police, enlist bystanders, note details, give first aid, speak up – illustrated by short clips and a “#civilianheroes” quiz linking street harassment to online hate and radicalization. Posters, stickers and classroom sets can be ordered gratis; social channels run ad-spots and survivor testimonies. The program sits inside ProPK, the joint crime-prevention office of Germany’s Länder and the Federal Criminal Police, headquartered at the Baden-Württemberg LKA. Funding is therefore public; no commercial sponsors are listed.
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Commentary:
Aktion Tu Was embodies the state’s preferred answer to hate speech and related problems: summon citizen valor, then dial for the patrol car. Quiz scenarios gamify risk and etiquette – choose "call for help" or "film the scene" – while presuming authorities will respond swiftly and even-handedly. Aktion Tu Was may stiffen individual nerve, yet its pedagogy stops at the door of systemic critique or much critical reflection, let alone self-reflection. By 2019, with its Zivile Helden initiative, the approach broadened its focus to online expression, warning of the growth of certifiable and reportable hate speech from the germ of off-color commentary.
Aktion Tu Was embodies the state’s preferred answer to hate speech and related problems: summon citizen valor, then dial for the patrol car. Quiz scenarios gamify risk and etiquette – choose "call for help" or "film the scene" – while presuming authorities will respond swiftly and even-handedly. Aktion Tu Was may stiffen individual nerve, yet its pedagogy stops at the door of systemic critique or much critical reflection, let alone self-reflection. By 2019, with its Zivile Helden initiative, the approach broadened its focus to online expression, warning of the growth of certifiable and reportable hate speech from the germ of off-color commentary.
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