
So I'm sitting here at the head of my table and can't help it, the first heat waves of the summer are over, my garden is an uplifting wilderness, recently a young grass snake was even discovered in a former bed, which now looks more like an enchanted undergrowth , disappeared. What's still missing is a small ruin, nothing oversized, just a few stones piled together to form something that is reminiscent of a piece of an old building, meaningless these days but visually a real charm.
The German social landscape also offers points of interest and what we have experienced there in the last few days sends one cold shiver after another down my spine. We don't just know the images from long-ago history, which some from the right-wing extremist corner would like to call fly poop. A fly-shit that has killed millions of people, made millions of women widows, millions of children orphans and millions of people refugees, a fly-shit almost as deadly as the meteorite impact that banished the dinosaurs from world events.
I remember a campaign by the DGB in the mid-80s “Don’t hit on my buddy”, there was no reason why the campaign wasn’t launched back then. At that time it was a reaction to the increasing xenophobia and racial hatred in Germany (then still West Germany).
A short time later, around 4 years, the Wall came down, including reunification, of course with reservations and rumors on both sides, only a fraction of which turned out to be true, although there were also some of them, for the sake of simplicity, we call them black sheep, also over there and over there, which then changed from over there to over there and from over there to over there and which formed the basis for further reservations against money-hungry Wessis and lazy Ossis. These few ensured that for part of the population of Germany as a whole, the hype about the successful, peaceful reunification quickly died down and a new wall was built, this time in people's minds.
Then it started again
But it didn't take long and a new, old object of hate was found - asylum seekers. Hoyerswerda, Mölln, Solingen, Rostock-Lichtenhagen, it was all just around 25 years ago, we saw the ugly face of racism clearly in front of us. People formed chains of lights and politicians finally introduced long-overdue reforms - the spirit of hate seemed to be banished until the Nazis, moved by the new stream of refugees, of which the industrialized nations are not entirely innocent, dug out the old club of hate again and put it into the desperate, anxious and dissatisfied people found eager listeners and willing followers.
Xenophobia is constantly present in the world, at least latently, mostly triggered by the fear of the unknown, not the unknown as a person, but rather the culture that he brings with him. This doesn't just happen and happened here, in Europe, the USA, Russia, no matter where you look, the Nazis and another term for race-hating, fascist, anti-democratic people do not exist in short form and are currently springing up like mushrooms. You might ask yourself why this is because of the unfiltered structure of social networks, which is basically a great thing.
short thesis
So now the Internet is to blame again, no, not directly, but rather indirectly. The person and their mental makeup are directly to blame. No, I'm not saying that all people who fall for these ideologies are stupid and that everyone else has eaten wisdom with a spoon. No, stupid people, if you want to call them stupid, also exist everywhere and with every ideology.
Almost all people, no matter what religion or political ideology they belong to, have a common, fundamental problem: we cannot cope with the wealth of information, we are simply mentally overwhelmed by the news that bombards us every day on the Internet. Why only almost all people? Because there may well be people who are intelligent enough and blessed, or perhaps cursed, with such comprehension that they can absorb, differentiate, process and reflect on everything, the rest must necessarily be sorted out. Unfortunately, many people think that they belong to the “blessed part” of humanity and are not.
So what happens? At first we think we can handle it and absorb everything, but suddenly time runs out and we can no longer read all the reports that are presented to us. Of course we could limit ourselves to the topics that interest us, but what's the point? Google, Facebook and many more offer a few content-related lines of the article, which is enough to get information and have a say. The latter is certainly the case, but unfortunately not fully informed, because as in the days of pure print media, today only an “eye-catcher” is used to arouse the reader's interest. Risky claims are often formulated as a question, which are then relativized, differentiated or even refuted in the actual article. Only if you feel sufficiently informed by the headings and “contents” will you fall victim to a serious fallacy.
Perhaps it requires a certain level of mental maturity so that one does not immediately pass on existing personal problems onto others, but rather reflects on self-inflicted problems where they actually come from - within oneself.
But I don't want to philosophize about the how and why of xenophobia and its ugly face, that's what everyone does in the days after the Nazi days in Chemnitz.
What I'm more interested in is, why don't we manage to form a broad, common front against these anti-democrats?
Let's just look at a few good and well-intentioned examples - "Reconquista Internet" by Jan Böhmermann with the approach of making the Internet positive again, so to speak, offering nice and friendly counter-speech, then as already mentioned from the 80s "Do my buddy not on", "#ichbinhier", "Get up", sit down, stay lying down (yes, I know the last two don't exist, they're just supposed to be a joke), as well as a citizens' initiative in almost every city and district. So there is actually a good, broad base, what is missing is an “umbrella organization” that appeals to everyone and that is where it becomes difficult.
While the Nazis and their followers pursue a goal and, if necessary, let their internal differences slide, according to the motto first get the strangers out, then we'll fight for the cake.
If the democratic side fails to push these differences aside. I get the impression that basically everyone wants the same thing, but would rather do it for themselves instead of jumping over their own shadows and creating a cross-party and cross-religious movement that serves as a contact point for the majority of the population and gives them faith and restores trust in democracy. This is no longer about the sensitivities of the individual but rather about a common defense of humanity and democracy in Germany.
What is currently happening in the democratic part of our political landscape shows clear parallels to the “thoughts and prayers” of US politicians after each new shooting spree. The fact that the Nazi parties are celebrating Chemnitz, so far without consequences, should scare us all.
The reaction of the music scene may have only been a beginning and the reactions of those who emerged from the brown soup of right-wing nationalism as an ugly face of agitation shows that a nerve was touched. Up to now they have felt like they were the majority, but far from it, there are more of us and in more than one sense.
On the one hand, purely in terms of quantity, but also as a nation, as a country, we are more than a hateful, violent mob and we need to show that to the world. In addition, let's not forget that Saxony is more than just a right-wing swamp; there are also many upright democrats there for whom the events in Chemnitz are weighing heavily on their stomachs.
However, given the political incompetence on display, an important question arises:
What still has to happen before our democratic politicians can unite against the right and not just make demands on each other or even blame each other?
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