People at Bonn protesting against Nazi cunts singing Ode to Joy

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      10 months ago

      Yeah that’s one of those platitudes that sounds nice but is not actually backed up by any science.

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        10 months ago

        Kind of obvious how it works isn’t it? You become hateful as you fight evil, and you become more and more accepting of cruelty as long as it’s to the enemy. Happens in wars all the time.

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          10 months ago

          Like I said it sounds plausible and logical, but that doesn’t actually translate to being true.

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            10 months ago

            Actually, it does. Since the AFD had more voters in the eastern states of Germany (that was DDR in the past) bigotry against people from eastern Germany have increased again. It was never completely gone, but now you find people openly speculating people from eastern Germany are less intelligent, “inbreds”, etc. And that comes a lot from supposedly anti-fascist leftists.

            A lot of people just want violence or don’t like people in general or have something else wrong with them and believe slapping an “anti-fascist” label on their violence somehow makes it good violence. Other ways do work and they are a better choice. Insulting, being cruel and being violent against people should never be your go-to idea and you certainly shouldn’t be trying to shame people into being violent.

            Many AFD voters can be turned in better ways, instead of making them fear violence and insults.