Around 150,000 people took to the streets of Berlin on Saturday as nationwide protests against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) entered their fourth week.
Around 150,000 people took to the streets of Berlin on Saturday as nationwide protests against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) entered their fourth week.
My (UK based, but owned by German parent) company sent out an Email denouncing the AfD.
Honestly felt quite surreal, my employer telling me not to give in to hate, bigotry and German nationalism.
Viel Glück, meine deutschen Freunde!
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Fascism is not an opinion but a crime.
Being against hate and Deportation is not politikal it is human.
I would not want to have Nazis working for me either. I don’t buy into that whole talk to them, change their mind nonsense. I say we ostracize them as much as possible, have them be pariahs. We either shame them into not being absolute garbage humans or they can fuck right off. Absolutely zero tolerance for Nazis.
That might work for full-on “let’s genocide the other races” Nazis, but for the far-right (i.e. everything to the right of classic conservatism) it would be suicide. There’s far too many people on that side to shame them. Your approach would only make sure that everyone who ever went in that rabbit whole is lost forever. I.e. they’d continue to gain members but not lose any.
Luckily a large part of the far right’s supporters are just people who are misinformed or didn’t think things through. There’s a reason that these parties are a lot less popular among educated people. That’s why these protests seem to work. They decrease the AfD’s poll numbers because they get people to realize that their vote isn’t a mere “fuck you” to politicians but something that could move them from the frying pan into the fire. These are people we should continue to talk to. Heck, I’d call them victims. No innocent victims, but victims who fell to propaganda and lies regardless.
Everytime I engage with one of them, as soon as I question the validity of their claims, they shut down and either just bleat their parole, insult me or spam their afd-blue hearts.
Its just not worth the energy
Are you sure the AfD is blue? I rather think they are good old Nazi brown.
No matter which color you paint a turd, it will stay a stinking brown turd underneath.
Their colour is blue so their supporters spam 💙
But yeah blaubraun is what they are
If it were about a mere political idea, I’d agree with you. But here were speaking about a party that’s in the process of becoming outright fascist and facism isn’t just an “idea”, it’s also a crime against humanity.
Your employer denouncing fascism shouldn’t be any more concering than your employer telling you not to assault your coworkers. It shouldn’t be controversial at all but part of the basic consensus civilized society is based upon.
That’s a good analogy. Both for what this vile ideology constitutes, and for the state of a society in which it has become necessary for employers to tell their employees not to assault their coworkers.