German chancellor Friedrich Merz announced sweeping tax, pension and labour reforms today, including that workers will now be required to get a medical certificate saying they’re too unwell to work from the first day of sick leave.
The difference between Germany and those other countries of course is Germany exterminated millions of jews, minorities and other “unwanted” in gas chambers while fighting a world war and German society largely sat and took it like cowards.
You have to understand how that changes how the rest of the world contextualizes Germany’s current “flirtation” with fascism… but hey I am from the US so I don’t claim to be on any high horse here.
Current politics is very far removed from that historical context and forgets how popular those policies used to be all over the world. And using language like exterminate is dehumanizing.
Expecting Germans to be a fundamentally genocidal people is racist. And you, likely, aren’t even aware of the genocides that happen and are happening in the past 10 years. There are plenty.
I hear all these words and none of them change the fact that less than a hundred years ago Germany exterminated millions of jews, minorities and a multitude of other human beings too.
How dare you accuse me of dehumanization for calling it what Germans saw it as.I clearly did it to emphasize the brutality not dehumanize the victims, fool.
Get the hell out of here with your lazy whataboutism about Genocide, of all things you could have picked.
I consider your language insensitive as you should provide more context and condemnation when using such dehumanizing terms. I didn’t think you were intending to do so.
Ok sure, beating around the bush with Genocide is a bit of a touchy subject with the Genocide of Palestinians raging on with state support of both the US and Germany, supposedly for the better of jews… so ok but know that I do not use such serious words lightly or carelessly.
I didn’t defend the genocide on the Palestinians.
To be fair, I do believe it gets disproportionate media attention compared to other, ongoing genocides with much higher death tolls and suffering. In particular on the left. But this does not mean you should attack me out of the blue.
Nobody cares if you think the Palestinian Genocide gets just a bit too much media attention in the cultures of the main systematic enablers of the Genocide.
Yes, other Genocides exist and we should also talk about them, of course, stop trying to use that strawman argument like most people upset about the Palestinian Genocide are only interested for specific reasons and not because it is a horrific crime against humanity… as a whole… it should weigh all of our hearts down shame on those who can forget it.
I don’t know if i have ever met a Palestinian, I probably have but I can’t think of any specific interaction or person I know and say “ah yes they are Palestinian”, but it doesn’t matter, I know there is an entire history that I do not know, but also I know that Palestinians are human beings and that is enough.
I didn’t say that. I said the others don’t get enough by a mile.
There is ample reason for the Palestine genocide to be overrepresented, some good too, some bad, too. Please read this as perceived and not actual reasons, some are much less sane and valid than others, the order is somewhat random:
compliance of Western nations,
Anti Western mindset and propaganda.
Anti oil/fossil fuel impacts.
increased energy bills to all (i.e. you are directly harmed by it)
Predictability of the terror attack
ramping up of condemned settlers policy, decentralized violence
failed Palestine/Israel policy for 80 years
Israeli wealth
few, but public Israelis arguing in favor of this, publically and righteously
very public arms shipments to Israel, Israel being a global player in arms manufacturing and engineering
overwhelming military supremacy of Israel
freedom of press in Israel
committed by a organized, large, stable nation
Intel sharing
water shortages, incapability of reaching a remotely equitable arrangement
lack of natural resources of Palestine
glacial pace of the conflict with very low rates of death
haredi Jews role in politics and privileges paired with their policy demands
a jewish nation committing genocide seeming particularly hainous when they should be particularly conscious due to their own, historical suffering (sins/suffering of the father does not translate like that, you shouldn’t hold anyone to that standard, in particular in lesser things)
Many particularly hainous parts of genocide did not happen in Palestine and likely never will, such as seen in al fasher. Also I feel like the points somewhat repeat each other.
The difference between Germany and those other countries of course is Germany exterminated millions of jews, minorities and other “unwanted” in gas chambers while fighting a world war and German society largely sat and took it like cowards.
You have to understand how that changes how the rest of the world contextualizes Germany’s current “flirtation” with fascism… but hey I am from the US so I don’t claim to be on any high horse here.
But boy does THAT sound familiar
Current politics is very far removed from that historical context and forgets how popular those policies used to be all over the world. And using language like exterminate is dehumanizing.
Expecting Germans to be a fundamentally genocidal people is racist. And you, likely, aren’t even aware of the genocides that happen and are happening in the past 10 years. There are plenty.
“German” is not a race, dimwit.
I hear all these words and none of them change the fact that less than a hundred years ago Germany exterminated millions of jews, minorities and a multitude of other human beings too.
How dare you accuse me of dehumanization for calling it what Germans saw it as. I clearly did it to emphasize the brutality not dehumanize the victims, fool.
Get the hell out of here with your lazy whataboutism about Genocide, of all things you could have picked.
I consider your language insensitive as you should provide more context and condemnation when using such dehumanizing terms. I didn’t think you were intending to do so.
Ok sure, beating around the bush with Genocide is a bit of a touchy subject with the Genocide of Palestinians raging on with state support of both the US and Germany, supposedly for the better of jews… so ok but know that I do not use such serious words lightly or carelessly.
Human rights apply to all humans.
I didn’t defend the genocide on the Palestinians. To be fair, I do believe it gets disproportionate media attention compared to other, ongoing genocides with much higher death tolls and suffering. In particular on the left. But this does not mean you should attack me out of the blue.
Nobody cares if you think the Palestinian Genocide gets just a bit too much media attention in the cultures of the main systematic enablers of the Genocide.
Yes, other Genocides exist and we should also talk about them, of course, stop trying to use that strawman argument like most people upset about the Palestinian Genocide are only interested for specific reasons and not because it is a horrific crime against humanity… as a whole… it should weigh all of our hearts down shame on those who can forget it.
I don’t know if i have ever met a Palestinian, I probably have but I can’t think of any specific interaction or person I know and say “ah yes they are Palestinian”, but it doesn’t matter, I know there is an entire history that I do not know, but also I know that Palestinians are human beings and that is enough.
So let us stand together against genocide ok?
I didn’t say that. I said the others don’t get enough by a mile.
There is ample reason for the Palestine genocide to be overrepresented, some good too, some bad, too. Please read this as perceived and not actual reasons, some are much less sane and valid than others, the order is somewhat random:
Many particularly hainous parts of genocide did not happen in Palestine and likely never will, such as seen in al fasher. Also I feel like the points somewhat repeat each other.
Freedom of the press in Israel?
Glacial state of the conflict?
Few Israelis arguing in favor of this?
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wow