Recent assaults spark national debate over Germany’s increasingly raw political climate, with some seeing echoes of its dark history.
One politician ruthlessly beaten while hanging campaign posters. Another assaulted in a public library. Yet another, pushed and spat on by suspects who were part of a group of people allegedly calling out “Heil Hitler.”
A string of violent attacks on politicians in Germany — including a brutal assault on a member of the European Parliament in Dresden — has shaken many and sparked a national debate over the increasingly raw political climate in the country, with some drawing comparisons to the kind of political violence that accompanied the rise of the Nazis.
Recent attacks on politicians are “reminiscent of the darkest chapter in German history,” said Hendrik Wüst, the conservative premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, in an interview on German public television.
Calling Nazis “people you disagree with” is already enough of a dogwhistle that tells us exactly what kind of person you are. And yes, if some mobster in Russia wants to eff Putin, he should go for it.
You can try to say I’m whatever you want, I don’t really care. What I’m more concerned about is living in a country with democratic values.
Perhaps it’s being an American, where we have various freedoms, but disagreements should be handled with words and debate. If you cannot beat someone with your words, you don’t deserve to win.
Regarding Putin, unfortunately, that would probably not make anything better. Just more chaos, and the war would continue. There’s plenty more Putins behind him, and whoever offs him is probably not a nice guy.
Yes, very interesting choice of words.
Oh boy, and I’m out. Murica!
Bye. Try not to assassinate people just because you disagree with them and want their power.
Unlike you I’m not a Nazi, but I will very much make use of my constitutional right to fight Nazis.
Fine and dandy. Though simply killing them because you don’t like them makes you just like them. That’s why we hate them after all, they just killed too many people.
Better to use words to convince.
Stop preaching this false narrative of “just because you don’t like them”. There’s reasons why we don’t like Nazis. I as a German know this very much better than you uneducated Muricans who think listening to far right pundits is part of some sort of balancing act for their enlightened centrism.
It’s not about liking them or not liking them. It’s about killing people without a trial, without fairness, during a time of peace. It does not matter who they are.
The law should apply to all people the same.
We’re not at peace, evident by Nazis attacking us and attempting to overthrow our governments.