It kinda seems like they don't. How can a "human" be that fucking anal about fucking anything. Pretty sure they're flesh robots Satan created or something.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Counterpoint: Germans are more antifascist than most Europeans.

    • Spirit_of_Communism [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Germany prohibits the "idolisation of Rosa Luxemburg" for threatening the federal constitution and democratic order

      :rosa-shining:

          • MagisterSinister [he/him,comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            Germany has a fairly strong antifa, and antifascism is much more mainstreamed here than elsewhere, but we also have one of the most militant nazi scenes, and a real problem with nazis and fash-pandering chuds in the police, the military, the intelligence community and the justice system. It's a bit of a contradictory situation, really. The political threat from fascism is bigger in the US, or the UK, or Austria, or Hungary, or Italy, or probably France, where center-right parties have all taken a sharp right turn. That has, for the time being, been shut down here. But about 10% of the population are still very, very vocal right wingers whose families have frequently upheld fascist believes for a whole century, and another 10% or so are kinda sympathetic to this shit and only don't support it because they don't want some buffoon like Trump or Bolsonaro in power. Most of them are not gonna publicly stan Hitler, but we all know how serious disavowals from these people are. This place was the epicentre of fascism the last time it became a problem, so the roots run deep and it's hard to yeet them all.

    • Marsala [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      On the one hand, the populist fascist party emerged later in Germany than in many other European states (e.g. Netherlands, Belgium, France, Poland, Hungary) but on par with for example Portugal. But, as posters more online than me pointed out already, Germany kind of has a historic responsibility not to do nationalism again.

      On the other hand, Germany always had not so obviously nationalist majority parties which abolished asylum rights as early as the nineties in response to pogroms against foreign workers.

      The great antifascist traditions of Germany were kind of interrupted when the best and brightest people of the country were murdered 33 - 45 alongside the Jewish and Roma population. Imo the country never really recovered, and even though there were some good movements (think RAF) and even an experimental socialist state in parts of the country, Germany never lived up to it's pre-/mid-war potential.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Relative to the rest of Europe. I admit that it is not a very high standard.