This week, I faced trial for opposing genocide, Zionism, and for challenging Germany’s unconditional support for Israel. The state prosecuting me may have legal authority, but its moral authority has collapsed as it again participates in a genocide.
Even more important, IMHO, is that it weren’t the Germans who rebelled and overthrew the NAZIs, foreigners were the ones who defeated the NAZIs and pushed Germans to change.
A powerful “this is wrong” amongst the German bringing down the NAZIs would have been a reflection of a change of spirit and way of thinking (or the majority even never really having thought like that to begin with), whilst this externally imposed change as consequence of the military defeat at the hands of a cohalition of Western nations followed by an occupation (which didn’t last long and didn’t really try to integrate Germans into the conquering nation’s culture) just means what was changed was that which is visible to outsiders - the appearances, not the spirit.
It’s no surprise the fast rise of the AfD in Germany when even parties like the Greens still think along the same “it is right to treat different races differently” lines as in the “old days” and the German political mainstream thinks Surveillance and using Lawmaking and Policing as an iron fist to suppress ideological dissent are appropriate tools to use in a supposed Democracy.
Even more important, IMHO, is that it weren’t the Germans who rebelled and overthrew the NAZIs, foreigners were the ones who defeated the NAZIs and pushed Germans to change.
A powerful “this is wrong” amongst the German bringing down the NAZIs would have been a reflection of a change of spirit and way of thinking (or the majority even never really having thought like that to begin with), whilst this externally imposed change as consequence of the military defeat at the hands of a cohalition of Western nations followed by an occupation (which didn’t last long and didn’t really try to integrate Germans into the conquering nation’s culture) just means what was changed was that which is visible to outsiders - the appearances, not the spirit.
It’s no surprise the fast rise of the AfD in Germany when even parties like the Greens still think along the same “it is right to treat different races differently” lines as in the “old days” and the German political mainstream thinks Surveillance and using Lawmaking and Policing as an iron fist to suppress ideological dissent are appropriate tools to use in a supposed Democracy.