This week, the Chancellor's cabinet committee (federal side of the government) decided that a massive effort has to be conducted to oppose right-wing extremism and racism. ARD, public TV, gave a brief description of the 'package'.
They've written up 89 projects, which will require one billion Euro over a four-year period.
The general idea? Each project will make the public more aware of racism, work toward prevention of right-wing situation, and half discrimination.
How the billion will be spent...isn't really laid out. One might view this general list of things, and just sense that a lot of this will be TV commercials, leaflets, student programs, and 'gifted-out' projects for major cities.
Is the current situation in Germany this demanding of such action? If you were around in the 1980s and tried to make comparisons to today....it's not the same place. Migration, immigration and asylum have taken place to a great extent over the past forty-odd years.
Eleven-million folks in Germany....out of the 83-million in population....are non-Germans (Turks make up around 13-percent of that group).
Over 143k Indians currently reside in Germany.
It is, without any doubt...a multi-culty landscape, and one can imagine that a quarter of the non-immigrant population (Germans) just view this in a negative way.
The idea that the billion Euro programs will have an affect? Well....to do nothing, would not be an option. I might agree that half of this funding will just flush down some toilet as PR money (posters on some billboards throughout cities like Frankfurt or Hamburg).
So this becomes a quest to just convince Germans that there is a right-wing/racism problem, and to correct it in some way. The fact that some migrants are racist in ways against other migrants/immigrants? It's best not to bring this topic.
If the one-billion Euro programs fail? You'd wake up in five years to say that at least you tried to correct public opinion.
As for left-extremism? That's for another day, and probably another billion Euro program to correct as well.
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It's far easier to silence and critique rather than listen ans understand why they feel the way they do. Reading the Christchurch manifesto should be mandatory, along with the explanations as to why he's mistaken on lots of his key points. But it's the classic conservative play book. Talk big about freedom and liberty and personal responsibility, but that just applies to the proles, not them!
Most all people who sit down and write manifesto stuff....aren't really thinking like the majority of us. I won't call them crazy, but they spend a lot of time dwelling on the failures of society/culture, and wanting to correct them. Most of these 'corrective' measures are programs that people would not support or believe in. So in the end, manifesto people go to some way of getting the attention they think they deserve, with violence or death as the tool of choice.
In the German case, if you measured up the quantity of far-right and far-left folks...it's probably the same number of 'bad-boys'. No one goes around to draw 'no-go' areas on a map and telling you that there are neo-Nazis here, or Antifa folks there. But if they do draw a no-go area, it's because of crime, or drug trafficking or crime-clan activity. Germans just quietly sit there, observe this bizarre landscape, and ask what's missing from the message?
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