Right let me put this straight. I live in Chemnitz and last night I was there and witnessed it all first hand. You have to understand that right wing, politics is not welcomed here by the majority. Germany has a dark past when it comes to extreme right wing politics you know. The Nazi, AfD etc are right wing of varying extremes. So, we do not want to see the right rise again do we. Over last year’s more and more people have come out of the woodwork and are becoming more vocal, they for first time in years feel that they can be more vocal in slagging off Merkel and her immigration policy. They feel like they can be a bit more openly xenophobic, and target the immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers that have come into Chemnitz and Germany. The murder of Daniel Hillig here was carried out by an Iraqi and Syrian, who have been arrested and will be charged. The right have now taken this and used it as propaganda to push their xenophobic views on the world on a bigger scale. They are exploiting his death, they couldn't give a hoot about him really. His death is being abused and blown out of proportion. Yes its terrible that someone was murdered, but a murderer is a murderer independent of skin colour. Yesterday, I saw Nazis freely walk the street again. Friends who are from India and Syria were too afraid to leave their homes as Nazis had been attacking people cos they had darker skin than your 'average Caucasian German'. And you ask why the left wing was protesting?! Yes there were extreme left-wing there who are infact in a different way not, much better than the Nazis in their violent approach. But the ordinary people of the city came out to say enough is enough, this kind of behaviour is not welcomed here or anywhere, there is no room for your hateful views in society. By not turning up you show the Nazis especially, that they have a platform, that they can be openly racist again and its acceptable. By the way, the man who died, Daniel, was half Cuban and therefore had darker skin. Just the kind of person the Nazis targeted, hated and attacked on Sunday when things started to escalate, but yet they are mourning his death as if he was one of their own. I can understand where people are coming from in showing their unease at the number of unchecked and uncontrolled immigration, but to condemn the ‘Ausländer’ (foreigner) because they are not a Caucasian German is completely unacceptable. And again the irony, the deceased was not Caucasian and came from a migrant parent from Cuba.
The Germans suffer from a complex because of their past. Partly it's self flagellation and the inability to get over their ugly past. If some German would say nazism is a past issue and today we are living in a different world, he would be basically crucified as his view could be intrepreted in a very bad way. Hence the Germans have a habit of depicting problems of today as resemblances of the past, as nazism is somehow coming back etc.Please be kind to an honest inquiry:
I am not really understanding the 'sides' of this upheaval. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
The catholics must be having an even harder time of it because I would suppose that the same thing is affecting their ranks and all of the abuse and corruption problems they are having. — Sir2u
Nah. We have South America, we're good and comfy while you guys go extinct. — Akanthinos
That may be, but the question is: are they finding answers in the church? — Bitter Crank
Mostly not, at least at the present time. A lot of what people are getting is the unsatisfying hog swill of popular commercial culture. If the churches want to become the font again, they will have to again undergo a serious reformation of their spirit. — Bitter Crank
Doubt it will happen with a bunch of conservative bishops getting ready to pull a coup. — Sir2u
he has, i quote, '100 pictures of comey and mueller hugging and kissing' is amazing. — csalisbury
Come back back Bonking Bill, all is forgiven! — unenlightened
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