There are way too many of the “old ways” still around in Germany, from a surveillance culture and very propagandistic Press to them continuing to support an ethno-Fascist state committing a Genocide with weapons very overtly because of their race and German courts convicting people for “anti-semitism” when they say the “from the Land to the Sea” saying but not doing the same for actual overt racist statements and behaviors against other ethnic groups.
The rise of the AfD has happened in field a field well plowed by mainstream German politicians with the idea that people’s worth depends on race, with some races being deemed good (ubermenschen) and others bad (untermensched).
The apparatus of the State and even the Justice System in Germany is riddled with the very same ideas about people - the racist idea that people’s value is determined by their race and some races are better than others - that served as the foundation of Nazism.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There are way too many of the “old ways” still around in Germany, from a surveillance culture and very propagandistic Press to them continuing to support an ethno-Fascist state committing a Genocide with weapons very overtly because of their race and German courts convicting people for “anti-semitism” when they say the “from the Land to the Sea” saying but not doing the same for actual overt racist statements and behaviors against other ethnic groups.
The rise of the AfD has happened in field a field well plowed by mainstream German politicians with the idea that people’s worth depends on race, with some races being deemed good (ubermenschen) and others bad (untermensched).
The apparatus of the State and even the Justice System in Germany is riddled with the very same ideas about people - the racist idea that people’s value is determined by their race and some races are better than others - that served as the foundation of Nazism.