Yup. I tried to have calm questions about it with my german friends, but they will lash out. Challenging their core beliefs is no-go for them.
Normally it would be at least 30 minutes of them ranting at me about inequality, taking care of the planet etc, before they would calm their tits and actually listen and agree with most of what I have to say.
I just can't deal with their red pill reactions. Its too much for me.
YouWillNeverBeAWoman@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
To be quite honest, I blame the denazification campaigns of the allies after WW2. The German culture has always been submissive to authority, but the decades of literal social engineering that took place to prevent another national socialist takeover really did its part. Yet East Germany underwent quite a different process under USSR occupation, which is still recognizable to this day.
Every form of formal education (from the earliest kinder garden classes to university) in Germany is designed to be fertile soil for left-wing and woke idealism and most Germans will protect this with their life.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
My understanding of that period in German history is that the survivors made amends with the Americans, but because of the start of the Cold War, the denazification theme kind of got forgotten.
Great grandpa and grandpa generation aren't always repentant for WWII. The grandkids are now in their 50s and were teens in the 80s, have huge guilt and are ashamed of their country. The millenials just hate humans in general, because 'humans are a cancer on the planet'
That shame generation is about to retire in maybe 6-10 years.