While I applaud him for wanting to make room for younger politicians, I'm sure the death threats, arson attacks and bullets were greater factors. This world sucks.
definitely related to the AfD's recent success during the EU election
This guy has been living in East Germany since fucking 1985. It saddens me to read this. Fuck the AfD.
Fuck the AfD Voters...I've been destroying years of friendships, because it turns out they voted AfD. I'm sick and tired of these fuckers enabling these clowns. This is definitely not my Germany anymore.
The friendship purge hurts.. it's tough to see that people you knew for years are lost like that.
I also feel kind of helpless with the current political climate. I don't get why people are so hateful and stupid otherwise they would see right through the BS Höcke et al are making up all the time >.<
It sucks, for sure. As an American, I went through this back in 2016, and in the years since - with another notable wave occurring after January 6th.
It’s frustrating, but I genuinely do feel a moral duty to aggressively shun and abuse fascists, no matter how long I’ve known them or how I’m related to them before I found out.
It's not just a moral duty, it's a damn duty for your country. Those idiots shouting "We are the true patriots" have lost everything both our countries stood for since we lost the war and you won it. The respect for people, the respect for different cultures, the knowledge that many of the laws our societes stand on are written in blood - hell, the respect to disagree and the ability do have different opinions.
I totally sympathize. A lot of us Americans had to do the same thing back in 2016. I cut off contact with a lot of people and have never gotten back in touch.
Keeping these friendships going could combat their radicalization, but I'm not faulting you, I also cancelled friendships over this.
I have no issue if political views don't line up, in fact I welcome discussions and I have been wrong many times on some topics. However, the line has to be drawn somewhere, and that somewhere is openly advocating for racism or other views, that simply cannot stand in a society that aligns with modern "western" views. (Too many individual points that we take for granted these days)
Meanwhile these people say the same thing about immigrants.
I do too. If anyone can't follow those basic rules, they have no place in our society.
His constituency office in Halle, Saxony Anhalt, has been an arson target, and has had bullets fired through the window.
Weird that this doesn’t come up until the 10th paragraph of the article.
It says it right underneath the title.
For context the shots fired on his office were in 2020 and the arson was last year, while that is awful I wouldn't try to frame them too much as the cause for his retirement.
That means an editor decided to draw attention to it. The journalist still buried it deep in the article.
This is just sad, will things ever change?
Only if we do a better job teaching our kids to not grow up to be nazis, racists, or easy marks for manipulate dishonest politicians.
Nazis gonna nazi. Shameful.
Hey Germany...can you wait until we (the US) are not on the nazi side before doing the whole "lose a world war" thing again?
Dude, the US is the world's biggest terrorist nation and has been for over a hunndred years. Who do you think inspired the nazis? Name three democratically elected governments the US has couped in favour of a tyrant that was happy to sell out his country to US interests in favour of power.
Come November, the US is going to have a Pro-NATO, anti-nazi leader....or the exact opposite. That is what I was referring to. Your nonsequiter comment doesn't merit engagement.
You're either quite optimistic or a trumpist trying to be smart. Either way, doesn't matter of Trump or Biden win, neither will end US terrorism. That's my point. But if Trump win, the decline of the US will accelerate.
In case anyone is curious, there's also Aramand Zorn, SPD (just like Diaby), Awet Tesfaiesus, Greens, and Harald Weyel, AfD, of all parties. Also happens to be the only native-born German.
Diaby is member of the SPD, their left wing on top of that which makes him a target for Nazis in the first place and his skin colour of course isn't helping. Neither is his constituency being in the east though do note that he didn't get into the Bundestag over the party list, he won a FPTP seat.
I often wish people in these situations tough it out, because of they don't, who will make the difference? Stepping down gets you one news article and then everyone forgets.
I respect his choice though, and it's another kind of heroic to put yourself and your family's safety first.
Sad he faced so much racism. I understand why he is doing this.
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