This guy has been living in East Germany since fucking 1985. It saddens me to read this. Fuck the AfD.
Fuck the AfD Voters...I've been destroying years of friendships, because it turns out they voted AfD. I'm sick and tired of these fuckers enabling these clowns. This is definitely not my Germany anymore.
The friendship purge hurts.. it's tough to see that people you knew for years are lost like that.
I also feel kind of helpless with the current political climate. I don't get why people are so hateful and stupid otherwise they would see right through the BS Höcke et al are making up all the time >.<
It sucks, for sure. As an American, I went through this back in 2016, and in the years since - with another notable wave occurring after January 6th.
It’s frustrating, but I genuinely do feel a moral duty to aggressively shun and abuse fascists, no matter how long I’ve known them or how I’m related to them before I found out.
It's not just a moral duty, it's a damn duty for your country. Those idiots shouting "We are the true patriots" have lost everything both our countries stood for since we lost the war and you won it. The respect for people, the respect for different cultures, the knowledge that many of the laws our societes stand on are written in blood - hell, the respect to disagree and the ability do have different opinions.
I totally sympathize. A lot of us Americans had to do the same thing back in 2016. I cut off contact with a lot of people and have never gotten back in touch.
Keeping these friendships going could combat their radicalization, but I'm not faulting you, I also cancelled friendships over this.
I have no issue if political views don't line up, in fact I welcome discussions and I have been wrong many times on some topics. However, the line has to be drawn somewhere, and that somewhere is openly advocating for racism or other views, that simply cannot stand in a society that aligns with modern "western" views. (Too many individual points that we take for granted these days)
If I cancelled all of the friendships I have with radicalized people, I would almost certainly have to isolate my little family completely.
I do try to talk time back over the line, but I don’t think I have ever succeeded.
I wish you luck, but that simply isn't possible with some, they are too far gone.
Nazis gonna nazi. Shameful.
In Germany? I thought they got rid of those.......like........a while ago.
After the war most Nazis were allowed to keep working in government (and elsewhere) cause who else knew how to run the country?
And it’s less they got rid of them, and more others came over and kicked their arse forcing them to “get rid of them”.
There was a process : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification
That process was a bad joke.
I don't think so.
Only now are Nazis getting a foot hold again, at the same time they are getting a foot hold across the world. It is the after effects of the 2008 crash and Putin putting his thumb on scales where he can (troll farms and corruption).
The fact Germany doesn't stick out as more Nazi that France, or the US, or others, means the original denazification worked.
No, they surely didn't just gain a foothold again. Many processes for "denazifizierung" were just a rubber stamping of the claims of the perpetrators. It's so ridiculous and well known that the term "Persilschein" was coined because of it. High ranking judges in the federal courts were Nazi perpetrators that even by the standards back then never should have been able to hold a job in the justice system ever again.
Places like the BND or BfV were more like SS- and other Nazi perpetrator pension schemes. Himmlers daughter, glowing Nazi for her whole life, worked for the BND as a secretary in the 60s under a false name. And they knew who she was.
Also, a big part of the student protest in the late 60s also was that many of their professors were just plain Nazis. Law commentaries like the "Palandt" or "Schönfelder" were named after Nazis and the names just changed in 2021.
What? France famously did not get rid of its own collabos, and the US was always fascist leaning even back then. Given how ridiculously aggressive the AfD campaigns, I'm actually more worried about their 16% than I do about the RN's 30%.
definitely related to the AfD's recent success during the EU election
His constituency office in Halle, Saxony Anhalt, has been an arson target, and has had bullets fired through the window.
Weird that this doesn’t come up until the 10th paragraph of the article.
It says it right underneath the title.
That means an editor decided to draw attention to it. The journalist still buried it deep in the article.
For context the shots fired on his office were in 2020 and the arson was last year, while that is awful I wouldn't try to frame them too much as the cause for his retirement.
This is just sad, will things ever change?
Only if we do a better job teaching our kids to not grow up to be nazis, racists, or easy marks for manipulate dishonest politicians.
While I applaud him for wanting to make room for younger politicians, I'm sure the death threats, arson attacks and bullets were greater factors. This world sucks.
In case anyone is curious, there's also Aramand Zorn, SPD (just like Diaby), Awet Tesfaiesus, Greens, and Harald Weyel, AfD, of all parties. Also happens to be the only native-born German.
Diaby is member of the SPD, their left wing on top of that which makes him a target for Nazis in the first place and his skin colour of course isn't helping. Neither is his constituency being in the east though do note that he didn't get into the Bundestag over the party list, he won a FPTP seat.
Sad he faced so much racism. I understand why he is doing this.
I often wish people in these situations tough it out, because of they don't, who will make the difference? Stepping down gets you one news article and then everyone forgets.
I respect his choice though, and it's another kind of heroic to put yourself and your family's safety first.
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