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- Subject: ///SAK/// GERMANY, Racism, Symphaty, Other things.
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 00:37:22 GMT
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- GERMANY, Racisizm, Sympathy and Other Things.
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- It's obvious that, the degree of racist attacks against the minorities
- in Germany has exceeded the critical threshold.
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- Every day, there are a dozen of (reported) attacks, sometimes even
- causing the death of the people being attacked.
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- Important to notice that, these are the reported events, and very extreme
- ones. Other than what we hear through the media, minorities in Germany
- are facing much larger number of offences in their everyday life.
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- In Germany there are a large number of Racist people.
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- But, in the same Germany there are also a considerable number
- anti-racist people.
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- Everyday they organize anti-racist rallies, walk on the streets
- with candles. They show their symphaty for the minorities.
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- Some of them are anarchists, who are only interested in violance.
- They are good at spoiling image of the rallies.
- They could be on the Neo-Nazi side as well. They just happen
- to be on the anti-racist side. They are not very many.
- Some of them are radicals, They are good at critisizing the human
- rights records of Spain for treatment of Bask People, or
- Turkey for treatment of Kurdish People, or whatsoever.
- (New Caledonia? Bosnia? they don't know where they are.)
- They are good in philosophy and some organized mass activities.
- They don't really take immigrants as "talkable" people, they
- flirt with radicals, anarchists of the countries where the
- minorities came from.
- Some of them are the hangovers from the late 1960s.
- Some of them are everyday people. They are humanists. They don't have
- much contact with minority people. They are good people. They
- don't harm anybody. They participate in the rallies in the
- weekends and, goto their office during the week. Part-time
- activists.
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- None of them are REALISTS.
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- They show symphaty for the minorities. But they don't understand
- their problems.
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- When they walk on the streets, they don't cry for equal rights
- for the immigrants. They only show their symphaty.
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- Do they walk for the victims or for satisfying themselves or
- for good image? Not known, Not sure.
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- Do they know that (or do they care)
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- - There are around 4 million immigrants in Germany,
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- who or whose parents arrived in Germany on average 30 years ago,
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- who can not vote even on matters effecting their fate?
- (in South Africa or Kuwait, the people who can vote are less numerous).
- representation in the parliement? You're kidding.
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- who, when married, can not bring their vives to Germany for at least
- one year. (A Canadian, marrying an Australian? No problem, you can
- arrive today).
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- who, when they are 18 years old, have to line-up in front of the
- police department for getting residence permit for the country,
- Germany, in which they were born. (with black hair perhaps, to
- make things even worse).
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- who are rarely accepted to German Citizenship, because they do not
- have German blood. ( An article in German Constitution, allows
- the ethnic Germans anywhere (e.g. in Russia), to be a citizen
- in a moment. Even if they can not speak any German). Poor Turk
- Ali, born in Berlin, grew in Berlin, Lived in Berlin, beaten in
- Berlin, Died in Berlin as a Turkish citizen.(Does any radical know
- these??).
- (Great man, late Willy Brandt once said, it is not enough to be
- right. Is it really not enough???)
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- who, 8 year old, when wants to visit a neighbouring country with
- fellow students in the elementary school, taken out of the bus at
- the border, because he needs visa?
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- who, when wants her/his relatives to visit her/him, has to run
- after the Great German Consulate for months, for getting her/his
- relative a visa (only if can...).
- (hey radicals, have you ever heard about the Helsinki Human
- rights aggrement? free movement???).
- who, when successfull in business and driving a Mercedes, is
- promptly judjed as being involved in illegal business?
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- Ask yourself, noone will hear, but you.
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- How many of you walk for yourself? How many of you for the minorities?
- or there is nothing else remained, wall is down, no ideology, no more
- utopia?
- Do you really love them?
- Do you critisize the human rights records of Spain, Turkey, Greece
- honestly, because they are (as a fact) not great, or is it a released
- expression of not-liking (of those people) otherwise hidden?
- Do you really see them as equals? Or are they the people to take care of,
- to philosophize over?
- Do you dislike the minorities driving Mercedes cars? Not because
- they are rich because you feel they are not on your side anymore? those
- people you symphatized for so long, betrayed you?
- Do you fancy the idea that, once you grant them the rights, they may
- have different opinions than you? they may perhaps vote for another
- political party?
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- Are you really honest? Or are we amusing ourselves here?
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- Make your mind up.
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- This time, you can not say, you didn't know.
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