Brandenburg election: Welcome Culture sours to Auf Wiedersehen
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Migrants who arrived since 2015 say they feel unwelcome in Germany, where the far-right Alternative for Germany is gaining support.
  • JeenaEnglish
    51•8 hours ago

    I really don’t get why so many people think the migration is their biggest problem instead of economy and especially demography in Germany. The industry is stuck in the 20th century, that’s the main problem which needs to be addressed, not if there are some migrants here and there.

      • @SlopppyEngineerEnglish
        5•5 hours ago

        Certainly when areas of improvement are controlled by rich people who in general like to contribute being rich.

    • @[email protected]English
      38•7 hours ago

      I really don’t get why so many people think the migration is their biggest problem

      Propaganda.

        • @[email protected]English
          7•7 hours ago

          Yup, that’s one flavour of propaganda. Others include racism and xenophobia, all different kinds of fear mongering from stealing jobs to raping “your” women, flat out lies like people eating pets, nationalism, exceptionalism (sadly not only an American problem), and so on. It is everywhere in pretty much all the media we consume consciously and un/subconsciously, even the most left leaning people can’t completely avoid it, we just work harder at being aware of it and (in general, should) do our best to combat it in our own minds and the minds of others.

    • @DandomRudeEnglish
      3•5 hours ago

      Exactly. What’s more, demographic change alone has led to an urgent need for workers from abroad in Germany. This applies to low-skilled as well as highly skilled workers - for example in crafts, catering, healthcare, nursing, IT or engineering, just to name a few sectors. What the right-wing parties and their supporters are propagating is not only inhumane and amoral, it is also economically disastrous. It is these unscrupulous opportunists who are ruining the country with their racist hate; not the migrants - quite the opposite.

    • @cmderEnglish
      6•8 hours ago

      Migration is not a problem itself. It is uncontrolled migration that is. It is normal when you have a lot of people coming in your country that don’t get papers so they can’t find normal job, appartment etc that they will turn to criminality to survive. IMO I think it is inhuman to let people in these situations. I am far more for more border control and easily giving papers to people who want to come to the country than letting borders open and ignoring them and letting them rot in the street.

      • Flying SquidMEnglish
        11•6 hours ago

        That sounds like an argument for a robust social safety net, not an argument against immigration.

      • @MightyEnglish
        10•7 hours ago

        you either willfully or unknowingly spout far-right conspiracy theory between the lines.

        migration is not only normal, but essential to the survival of the planet and each country/region. it’s a net positive. we’ve gone so far out of our way to make it a “we” vs “them”, when there’s no “we” at all. there’s just rich people protecting their interests, trying (and suceeding) to divide the masses

      • manucodeEnglish
        4•7 hours ago

        That’s why support for anti immigration parties is so concentrated in regions with few immigrants

        • @[email protected]English
          1•4 hours ago

          This is definitely not the case in Sweden. During their last election it was the complete opposite.

          • Flying SquidMEnglish
            6•6 hours ago

            Bigotry of small-minded people who live in communities that need more diversity.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•7 hours ago

    If you think thats bad, its gonna get worse. One of the biggest biggest demographics that voted for them were young people now imagine how it will be when these young people grow up

    • @krashmoEnglish
      14•5 hours ago

      Europe is going to be a shitshow in the coming decades no matter what direction voters are trending. We’re all talking about this as if it’s primarily a political issue and it just isn’t. Climate change is already fucking our shit up and that’s going to get exponentially worse. Desperate people don’t care about imaginary lines on a map.

      We can’t even deal with a comparatively small amount of migrants without backsliding into the same kind of fascism that our grandparents had to invent nuclear bombs to subdue 80 years ago. There’s no way we’re going to deal with what’s coming in a rational way.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 hour ago

        Hey, the nuclear bombs were to stunt on fools, fascism got beat just fine by the united industrial strength of social democracy(ish), communism(ish), and the British Empire. And all three of those things are doing just fine in 2024, right?

  • @MightyEnglish
    -9•7 hours ago

    oh welcome culture? you mean the one where we ostracize and other families that don’t look white european enough? where we put them in camps at the border, where we let them drown in the mediterranean, where we rig the system so hard against anyone lower class so that they will never rise to anything and their kids won’t as well? where we criminalize them and then just send them to some war region somewhere? yeah…must have been the “new” far right that has soured this great welcome culture. STFU