Newer migration competes with established communities for low skill labour, puts pressure on unskilled labour wages, increases conpetition for affordable housing and tipically increases criminality in neighbourhoods typically inhabited by low income families. Maybe, instead of the entire thread dunking on the Turks like fucking racists that you are, people can stop for a minute and ask why are these communities reacting like this. Migration is a serious issue and has toppled many a leader when brought to the fore as a political talking point. Maybe drop the dogmas and look at the data! It’s always the poorer that feel the pressure just so privileged Hans can afford a housekeeper and a gardner with his Beamte wage!
The irony, I swear
Edit: To add, we’ve had a similar situation with the romanian diaspora in europe voting mostly for the anti-eu candidate during the presidentials. The mind boggles.
Those leopards surely won’t eat my face.
3 generations down they will.
Vote Face-Eating Leopards’ Party! We promise not to eat your face!
Yup. The Romanian diaspora is simultaneously being treated like undesirable immigrants, and wants immigrants in Romania to be thrown out to protect the “purity” of the country. A country they no longer live in, and have no intention of returning to.
Every time I hear something about AfD or one of the other far-right morons I play a game in my head: where did they steal this one from? Which part of MAGA is reflected here? In this case: the Latin Vote. They see how the apparent contradiction can simply be ignored and the same rhetoric applied.
BTW, my mom is an immigrant in Germany herself (not Turkish though) and happily repeating all of AfD’s anti-immigration talking points.
Why can’t the fucking media stop calling the SPD “center-left”? There is nothing left left in the SPD, they are really just another neoliberal centrist party with right leaning tendencies, always ready to copy any half way successful right winger’s rhetoric and ideas.
That the SPD lost support of the lower classes is no surprise and a direct result of everything the SPD has done in the past 3 decades.
Of course, it’s monumentally stupid of the lower classes to flock to fascists instead, especially for people with immigrant background, but the AfD’s Propaganda is especially aimed at lower income demographics, and thanks to a whole bunch of parrots in the media and copycats in the “democratic” parties, they are gaining popularity instead of losing it.
Left, right and center depend on the country. In the German context the SPD is center left. Not because they would have been so in the past. The party certainly moved to the right, but because they support more left leaning policies then the CDU.
Eh. I’d say it’s center right, the c*u is right, there’s the fascists/far right and then you have the social democratic parties left of center like the greens and the linke.
Things don’t have to be relative in this context either. They’re also relative, but you can use more absolute criteria as well. Stuff like “wants no one to be coerced into employment” vs “wants some people coerced mildly” vs “wants to coerce everyone to be employed”. Or the converse with regards to social security. Or criteria relating to individual rights. Or regulation in favor of hierarchical power structures vs regulations in favor of non-hierarchical power structures. These would all be meaningful left-right aligned analytical lenses.
I do agree though that relative statements can for certain contexts be more immediately practical. But also, the case of the spd is one where thinking about the space of possible party landscapes is relevant: What if the spd were center-left, in the sense of reformist left-wing/labor movement/syndicalist-ish policies, instead of a seeheimer circle oriented mildly right-wing party? That would present a very different type of discourse in society, i feel.
The SPD was always like that. There is a quote by Tucholsky saying that about the SPD in 1932.
Translation by deepl, original below
“It is unfortunate that the SPD is called the Social Democratic Party of Germany. If, since August 1, 1914, it had been called the Reformist Party or the Party of the Lesser Evil or Here Families Can Make Coffee or something like that, the new name would have opened the eyes of many workers, and they would have gone where they belong: to a workers’ party. But as it is, the shop does its bad business under a formerly good name.”
“Es ist ein Unglück, daß die SPD Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands heißt. Hieße sie seit dem 1. August 1914 Reformistische Partei oder Partei des kleinern Übels oder Hier können Familien Kaffee kochen oder so etwas –: vielen Arbeitern hätte der neue Name die Augen geöffnet, und sie wären dahingegangen, wohin sie gehören: zu einer Arbeiterpartei. So aber macht der Laden seine schlechten Geschäfte unter einem ehemals guten Namen.”
You’re right, but the SPD also had a brief interlude where they actually did advocate and advance workers’ rights from the end of WW2 until the early 1980s.
Ottoman Empire legacy:
I have to say. The way some outlets and people concentrate on second, third and fourth generation immigrants that vote the NSDAP 2.0, seems to me like the middle class germans are looking for a way to blame someone else but themself. The main voting bloc for the fascist is like everywhere else the middle class because they dont want to share with people they view as below them.
That’s what happens when you abolish the stasi. Not even 3 decades later they’re back to the third Reich
Germans can’t be trusted
You really think the Stasi (Secret Police in the former GDR, East Germany for those who don’t know) existed to protect the citizens from fascism? That’s the most outrageously boneheaded tankie propaganda I have ever read.
Oh they definitely existed to protect citizens from fascism. As a belgian person I’d sleep better at night knowing the Germans are under control
And you call all germans fascists, that have to be kept under control? really?
you know what that means for you?
hint: it`s spelled with these letters ACIRST
Yeah I’m Belgian. Call it generational trauma, there is something in their culture that makes then prone to thinking their superior people and to invade and do massacre. They did it 4 times already. It’s not racist to say that but I think there’s too much of them and we’d better sending then back east where they came from
I don’t trust Germans too (Source: I am German) but you’ll have to take into account that the Stasi members were German as well. And they had a very German approach at running things. Torture, murder, propaganda, organising a system where basically everyone was forced to spy and snitch on their neighbor was carried out with great bureaucratic precision and accuracy. They had learned this kind of inhuman technocracy from the Nazis and perfected it.