 In 2000 Burger criticised the "Thursday Demonstrations" against the Schüssel/Haider coalition as an "antifascist carnival" and again unchained a national debate.Finally, in 2001 he angered a lot of critical intellectuals with his request to forget and close the debates on guilt and remembrance.Historian Heribert Schiedel therefore named him "the black and blue court philosopher," black referring to ÖVP, blue to FPÖ.