UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA GRADUATE SCHOOL ...

24 January at 21:40
Aleksandar Sasa Ivanovic apart from swear words and that your‘re a proud ustaša you
Comrade know nothing about life......but it‘s probably not your fault......you‘ve heard it
from someone!!!!....enjoy now in this state with all the possibilities it offers you!!!
04 May at 14:13
In the exchange above the users, again all regulars, bitterly invoke the traumatic past of the WWII
and manage to discard ‗civilised‘ interaction, despite the fact that users are here represented with
their names (as opposed to the earlier on ‗mask of anonymity‘ as the main facilitator unrestrained
digital sociability). What conspicuously comes to the fore is the use of first person in recounting
the massacres: ―of course we killed you..we should‘ve killed you all and we‘d have today a
normal state......‖ This coming from someone who was apparently not born before the late 1980s is
surprising inasmuch as it reveals an affective identification with a criminal regime. What is more,
from this position the youth apparently judges not only the past, but also the present: as if living at
the brink and during WWII he manages to bring in the ‗debate‘ not only anti-communism but also
anti-Semitism.
Now, what to make of digital sociability breeding hate speech in terms of memory or even
commemoration? The bitter exchange above makes reference to two historically and mythically
strongest markers of post-Yugoslav history of the latter half of the 20th century, the Jasenovac
concentration camp where the Ustaša regime under the auspices of the Independent State of
Croatia carried out extermination predominantly of Serbs, but other nationals as well. Bleiburg in
Austria, on the other hand, is associated with the extermination of NDH forces after the end of the
war, when the troops were returned to Yugoslav authorities by the British. Thus, in a profile popculturally
remembering Josip Broz, a historical topic emerges significantly reduced and simplified.
Moreover, apart from any wider historical contextualisation and reasoning the two episodes
become the tool for discrediting and insulting. In the exchange the historical facts are deemed
irrelevant, just as any respect for the dead. Even more, the interlocutors go as far as to wish upon
each other a very same sort of death. Thus, the traumatic past is prozaically abused.
In the conspicuous absence of any admin intervention, a couple of regular users express their
discontent with the absence of any admin sanctioning of such content.
Nena Maric There are sites that don‘t allow to offend what the site is serving,this is
disgrace,whom that many people, admins let various fascists to post nonsense... I don‘t
understand at all.
19 March 2010 at 02:03
Ana Jesen Lukic I don‘t undersand why nationalists want to be members of this group?
now you have ―your own‖ states share your opinions there, not here... it was an honour to
live in the time of comrade Tito. we weren‘t aware how good it‘d been before this low-
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