I submit that German politicians and whatever regulatory agencies they have that oversee hate speech matters need to zoom the fuck out and understand that a group that you wronged in history can, in fact, be guilty of the same crime you yourself were guilty of, and are trying to guard against. Making hate speech protections this ethnically literal around Jews (and, it should be mentioned, Russians as well) is in fact counterproductive to the spirit of the whole “never again” idea.
The country in question never denazified, it just banned Nazi aesthetics. The underlying practice of scapegoating and war and anticommunism were never dealt with. Nazis were kept and promoted in positions of power. There, the holocaust is taught as something focused solely on Jewish people, ignoring the systematic killing of communists, Roma, LGBTQ+, and slavs. Germans are taught to feel proud of their shame towards Jewish people and that are now experts at it, gladly admonishing anyone that, say, does not conflate Judaism with the genocidal apartheid settler colonial ethnic supremacist project known as Israel. This, of course, means that Germans remain deeply antisemitic, just with new aesthetics that, rather than scapegoat Jewish people, pigeonholes them into a violent project against brown people that must be supported at all costs.
Of course, there are Germans that do properly reckon with this history and are coherently against antisemitism and settler colonial genocide. They are the subject of this state crackdown, the state itself being an eager lapdog for US empire, happily complicit in yet another genocide.
I submit that German politicians and whatever regulatory agencies they have that oversee hate speech matters need to zoom the fuck out and understand that a group that you wronged in history can, in fact, be guilty of the same crime you yourself were guilty of, and are trying to guard against. Making hate speech protections this ethnically literal around Jews (and, it should be mentioned, Russians as well) is in fact counterproductive to the spirit of the whole “never again” idea.
The country in question never denazified, it just banned Nazi aesthetics. The underlying practice of scapegoating and war and anticommunism were never dealt with. Nazis were kept and promoted in positions of power. There, the holocaust is taught as something focused solely on Jewish people, ignoring the systematic killing of communists, Roma, LGBTQ+, and slavs. Germans are taught to feel proud of their shame towards Jewish people and that are now experts at it, gladly admonishing anyone that, say, does not conflate Judaism with the genocidal apartheid settler colonial ethnic supremacist project known as Israel. This, of course, means that Germans remain deeply antisemitic, just with new aesthetics that, rather than scapegoat Jewish people, pigeonholes them into a violent project against brown people that must be supported at all costs.
Of course, there are Germans that do properly reckon with this history and are coherently against antisemitism and settler colonial genocide. They are the subject of this state crackdown, the state itself being an eager lapdog for US empire, happily complicit in yet another genocide.
Well articulated—clear and concise!
Nah they don’t care about that they are simply bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.