Yeah, disrupting the Nazis is a tricky one, Maurice, for, as you say, it merely highlights and brings them to the fore, when what we really need are for them to be permanently relegated to the background.
But ignoring them, or, worse still, burying our heads in the sand in the vain hope they might just simply disappear isn’t going to work either.
On the issue of recognising Israel’s right to exist, which is a given among most rational people, in order to acquire German citizenship seems plain wrong.
Why should incomers to the country be made to make a pledge that, I’d strongly suggest, the majority of the 20% of the electorate, who most determinedly are indigenous Germans (whatever that means!), that voted AfD would probably refuse to make.
As said before, Germany’s anti-semitism problem is neither new nor imported; so if anyone should be making assertions about Israel’s right to exist, make it the blue-eyed Germans first, and then let’s see…
PS Fabulos evening last week, and a real pleasure to meet both co-founders of this excellent platform!
I'm 100% in favor of the Center for Political Beauty protest. Complacency will get us nowhere and letting these people know that we are always there watching is vital. It also lets people on the fence know that there is a significant number of people against the AfD and that it's OK to oppose them. The protest actually moved me to donating to them, which I should have done years ago. Their interview with Die Welt was also amazing.
It just provides content for the AfD Tik Tok machine. Protests like this are a gift to them. I did like it when the Political Beauty guys built a replica of the Holocaust Memorial next door to Björn Höcke's house in Thüringen. That was smart.
so interesting to hear what people who have open disdain for TikTok/Instagram and don't even have the app(s) have to say about their use in the real world. 🙄
I have Instagram. But that's besides the point. Disrupting a TV Interview looks pretty childish to more conservative people. It can easily be framed as being "anti-democratic", so I don't buy your point about convincing people on the fence.
I want to know more about the DB 3 year course. Do they teach German? Do they pay? Assuming they pay, that it's kind of like an apprenticeship, it could be a steadier income than a lot of people have right now.
Yeah, disrupting the Nazis is a tricky one, Maurice, for, as you say, it merely highlights and brings them to the fore, when what we really need are for them to be permanently relegated to the background.
But ignoring them, or, worse still, burying our heads in the sand in the vain hope they might just simply disappear isn’t going to work either.
On the issue of recognising Israel’s right to exist, which is a given among most rational people, in order to acquire German citizenship seems plain wrong.
Why should incomers to the country be made to make a pledge that, I’d strongly suggest, the majority of the 20% of the electorate, who most determinedly are indigenous Germans (whatever that means!), that voted AfD would probably refuse to make.
As said before, Germany’s anti-semitism problem is neither new nor imported; so if anyone should be making assertions about Israel’s right to exist, make it the blue-eyed Germans first, and then let’s see…
PS Fabulos evening last week, and a real pleasure to meet both co-founders of this excellent platform!
Cheers!
I'm 100% in favor of the Center for Political Beauty protest. Complacency will get us nowhere and letting these people know that we are always there watching is vital. It also lets people on the fence know that there is a significant number of people against the AfD and that it's OK to oppose them. The protest actually moved me to donating to them, which I should have done years ago. Their interview with Die Welt was also amazing.
It just provides content for the AfD Tik Tok machine. Protests like this are a gift to them. I did like it when the Political Beauty guys built a replica of the Holocaust Memorial next door to Björn Höcke's house in Thüringen. That was smart.
so interesting to hear what people who have open disdain for TikTok/Instagram and don't even have the app(s) have to say about their use in the real world. 🙄
I have Instagram. But that's besides the point. Disrupting a TV Interview looks pretty childish to more conservative people. It can easily be framed as being "anti-democratic", so I don't buy your point about convincing people on the fence.
I want to know more about the DB 3 year course. Do they teach German? Do they pay? Assuming they pay, that it's kind of like an apprenticeship, it could be a steadier income than a lot of people have right now.