I arrived at Hamburg main station, tracks 13+14 - just where over a week ago, a mentally ill German woman injured 15 in a brutal knife attack, some severely. She was stopped by two men: a young refugee from Syria and a man from Chechnya. The press quickly dropped the case.
That had not at all been the case when a similarly ill man, but a refugee, killed two in Bavaria. For weeks, up to our elections, this tragic event was heavily exploited to push anti-migrant politics.
Honesty, and humanity.
Germans don't need Putin to be structurally racist. We can do that on our own.
(of course, I wont deny that there are disinformation campaigns by Russia. But overemphasizing them shifts the focus away from the responsibility of media and politicians).
Your response strikes me as slightly aggressive. Maybe you didn't read the second paragraph of my post?
Again: Of course, there is RT and bot-networks, of course the Russian government supports fascist networking all over the world, and Russia is interfering from the right and through populist internet spaces into media and politics. In some
You do understand that politics are a huge ship with many groups of interest pushing into different directions at different levers?
But I am really tired of the 'it's all because of Russia' analysis. Yes, a bunch of AfD-politicians are on Putin's payroll (not to forget Schröder & possibly Kretschmer), and this might have a moderate political influence.
But structural racism is a deeply entrenched system of cutural values and beliefs. How else do you explain the actions of liberal politicians, bureaucrats and institutions on these topics?
ARD and the major newspapers are definitely not *directly* controlled by RT, but the impressive media dynamics following the attack in Solingen compared to the recent one in Hamburg stands no comparison.
Are Merz, Spahn, Lindner and Dobrindt in reality nice guys, but spew out racist shit when Moscow tells them so?
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