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I think that the reaction of most mainstream German politicians to the Israeli-Genocide has made it painfully obvious that they're deeply Racist, since they justified unwavering support for a regime commiting a Genocide along ethnic lines - were amongst, other things they murdered tens of thousands of children because of their ethnicity - by saying that they "unwaveringly" support the ethnicity that said genocidal regime claims to represent: it doesn't get much more Racist than justifying sending weapons to guys mass murdering children along ethnic lines because the ethnicity of the murderers is one specific ethnicity rather than a different ethnicity.
Not only is the moral distance from "We support Genocidal mass murderers because of their race" to supporting the quasi-Nazi AfD miniscule compared to what it would be if the starting point had instead been "No kind of oppression can be justified by the race of the oppressors", but even the AfD ideology itself of "The German people should be able to do whatever they want to other ethnicities and nationalities" is morally not that distant from the "This specific race should be able to do whatever they want to other ethnicities and nationalities".
In summary, the actions that the SPD and CDU/CSU (and even the Greens, for their eternal shame) have been unwaveringly supporting "for the Jewish People" are even more violent than those the AfD have been supporting "for the German people".
Clearly the German Political class never strayed far from the way of thinking that underpinned NAZISM (they mostly moved a specific ethnicity from the "untermenschen" to the "ubermenschen" column) and hence the distance to get back to the "old" "principles" was always much shorter than their performative anti-Nazism led most people to believe.
Unbelievable. There is an article about how Germans take to the streets to protest our biggest threat to Democracy and the potential next Nazis-Party and the only thing you say is one of the most racist things I have ever read on here. Shame on you.
What he said was the opposite of racism.
In the Racist mind the criticism of how their judgement standards and choices of supporting or not a person or State are different depending on the target person's race, always ends up interpreted as "an attack on a Race" because Racists cannot even begin to conceive the idea that "All humans and their actions should be judged independently of their Race".
When a Racist voices criticism of an instance of double-standards depending on Race being used, they are motivated by a desire to attack the Race which benefits from such double standards, so in their minds that must be the reason why other would attack such Race-related double standards and in their Racist minds it's inconceivable that the criticism could be against any such double standards no matter who benefits and against the entire mental architecture of seeing and judging people as Race-members rather than as human beings,
In the minds of Racists everything everybody says or does about other people is determined by Race, so criticism of Racism itself is invariably seen as an "attack on a Race" in the mind of the Racist.
(Aside from this poster's response to my post, other examples of what I mean can easily be found in how Trump supporters respond to criticism of their Racist actions - their responses often follow exactly the same pattern as the poster above)
Obviously thanks to their circular logic that "any criticism of Race-based double standards can only be explained as Racism against the Race which benefits from it", Racists feel no shame about their own Racism, since it justifies itself as a reaction to what they interpret (following said circular logic) as the Racism of critics.
I weep for Germany and all the Germans who are Humanists rather than Racists: it must be hard living surrounded by so many people whose views on their fellow human beings fit the very same architecture of thinking of people as "first and foremost members of Races", as the Nazi ideology.