German Chancellor Friedrich Merz decided last week to partially suspend arms deliveries to Israel - a policy shift he made all on his own. Conservative lawmakers in the country are furious.
I’ve been hammering the British Government posture on this quite hard everytime they arrest yet another Palestine-supporting anti-Genocide “terrorist” old lady, though I haven’t done it anywhere as much for the US because its current Fascism is so self-evident and so many people here relentlessly point it out and some even include comparisons with the NAZIs, so my voice would be redundant.
That said, events displaying extreme Racism in Germany do pull me towards mentioning the NAZIs, both because the NAZIs were mainly from Germany (and Austria) - so mentioning them in the context of Racism in Germany is like mentioning the Ku-Klux-Klan in the context of Racism in the US - and because before this display of the seedy underbelly of mainstream German politics I really, trully, deeply believed that Germans had learned from the horrors of NAZIsm to become even closer to Humanist ideals than most others and were thus the people in the World least likely to display traits of NAZI thinking.
Also as you see in my previous post, I do draw parallels to equivalent historical events for Britain and the US - the various Genocides of the British Empire for the former and the Native American Genocides for the latter.
That said, I confess I expected that kind of shit from Britain and the United States Of America (especially the former, having lived there for a decade and thus having a horrible opinion of it’s elites and parts of its society), but the depths of my dissapointment with Germany (were I also lived, tough only for a few months, having left with a far better impression than I did Britain) are undescribeable, and that does make me more likely to point the only other point in Germany’s recent history when the country in my view as a nation acted anywhere near the moral lows it is displaying now (I can’t really think of any other ocasion between then and now when Germany supported such horrible actions so openly justifying it with Racist rationales).
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I’ve been hammering the British Government posture on this quite hard everytime they arrest yet another Palestine-supporting anti-Genocide “terrorist” old lady, though I haven’t done it anywhere as much for the US because its current Fascism is so self-evident and so many people here relentlessly point it out and some even include comparisons with the NAZIs, so my voice would be redundant.
That said, events displaying extreme Racism in Germany do pull me towards mentioning the NAZIs, both because the NAZIs were mainly from Germany (and Austria) - so mentioning them in the context of Racism in Germany is like mentioning the Ku-Klux-Klan in the context of Racism in the US - and because before this display of the seedy underbelly of mainstream German politics I really, trully, deeply believed that Germans had learned from the horrors of NAZIsm to become even closer to Humanist ideals than most others and were thus the people in the World least likely to display traits of NAZI thinking.
Also as you see in my previous post, I do draw parallels to equivalent historical events for Britain and the US - the various Genocides of the British Empire for the former and the Native American Genocides for the latter.
That said, I confess I expected that kind of shit from Britain and the United States Of America (especially the former, having lived there for a decade and thus having a horrible opinion of it’s elites and parts of its society), but the depths of my dissapointment with Germany (were I also lived, tough only for a few months, having left with a far better impression than I did Britain) are undescribeable, and that does make me more likely to point the only other point in Germany’s recent history when the country in my view as a nation acted anywhere near the moral lows it is displaying now (I can’t really think of any other ocasion between then and now when Germany supported such horrible actions so openly justifying it with Racist rationales).