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I would say that the politically widespread "unwavering support" for a nation very overtly because of their dominant ethnicity, including whilst they're commiting a Genocide along ethnic lines themselves (the kind of thing one would naivelly expect Germans to be especially disgusted at), proved beyond any doubt that Racism in Germany is alive & well all across the political spectrum, from the supposed "left" of the Greens all the way to the far-right.
(AfD really is just the same mindset with the addition of "If it's good to unwaveringly support them no matter what they do, then it's also good for us")
Sadly whilst the symbols were forbidden, the way of thinking about other human beings (of seeing people as members of ethnicities and judging and treating them differently depending on ethnicity) that was the foundation for Nazism never actually died in Germany, they just changed who the ubermenschen and untermenschen are and don't actually say those words out loud.
Ah, the good old sociopath-style argument that because there is Racism everywhere then people shouldn't complain about the level of Racism in some places approaching that of the Nazis.
It's the Racist variant of the good old "we're better than North Korea" argument to defend Capitalist excesses.
If you go up to my original post, it was in response to somebody talking about German politics in the context of the Israeli Genocide.
As one of only a handful of nations who kept on "unwaveringly supporting" Israel with weapons even as the Genocide became more and more extreme and obvious beyond deniability, Germany definitely needs to be heavily criticized for that support and the underlying view of other human beings that is required for people to say - as Sholz did - "We unwaveringly support the Jewish Nation" (note the ethnicity very explicitly) as justification to keep sending weapons to Israel even after they had already murdered over 40,000 civilians including a list of babies 1 year old or less which was 17 pages long.
This isn't the "police taking less seriously reports of being assaulted from victims of certain ethnicities than from other ethnicities" level of Racism far too common in many countries, this is the "we'll keep on sending weapons to people who have murdered thousands of babies because we support the race of the murderers" level of Racism - the level of evil of unfairly treating a minority is a whole different scale from the level of evil of sending weapons to baby mass murderers because you support their race.
Absolutely, the likes of the US and UK, for example, are just as appallingly and disgustingly Racist.
However I myself did not expect this from Germany, both because I had a much much better opinion of Germans (I even lived there for 3 months) and because having in the past done horrible things (Nazism, the Holocaust) exactly because of extreme Racism and spent the time since remembering it and claiming "Never again", it turned out that the "Never again" of most German politicians was the race-limited version "Never again shall we Germans do this to Jews" rather than the Humanist version of "Never again shall this happen".
It's hard for me to convey just how profoundly disappointing I am with Germany in addition to how disgusted I am with it and other nations who kept supporting baby mass murderers with weapons to kill more babies overtly because they support the race of the murderers.
So yeah, I totally agree with
from the poster I was responding to, because until recently Germany hadn't displayed anywhere near the levels of Racism required to, because of the race of the murderers, support baby mass murderers with weapons that will be used to murder more babies.