Chilling read by @okwonga.bsky.social "Far right’s xenophobia is not at the fringes of German society: it can be found in voices at its very centre" www.theguardian.com/world/commen... - ThreadSky

aurelmondon.bsky.social • 13 hours ago

Chilling read by @okwonga.bsky.social

"Far right’s xenophobia is not at the fringes of German society: it can be found in voices at its very centre"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2025/feb/23/anti-migrant-hate-germany-election-time-of-the-cowards

Comments

benrosenzweig.bsky.social•13 hours ago

There are specific dynamics in particular places, but it's difficult not to notice the strong parallels and mutual reinforcing politics of xenophobia and far Right tendencies from Germany to South America and very much the US.

benrosenzweig.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Almost thirty years ago Michael Lind was arguing that a "rise of German nationalism - not just right-wing xenophobia, but, increasingly, a moderate nationalism of the center and left - means that the "Europeanism" of the Germans may have peaked".

peter10997.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Emmanuel Todd argued that the task of unification inevitably made Germany the first major European country to regain a nationalist agenda - followed by Russia under Putin and the UK after Brexit (and he thinks/hopes inevitably by France soon).

benrosenzweig.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The involvement of everyone from Bannon to Musk in actively supporting the German far Right feels like it should be seen as evidence of the emerging content of such tendencies internationally.

benrosenzweig.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Recent events also feel reminiscent of the shifting alliances of the various 'integralist' and proto - and clerical-fascist tendencies in Europe, and indeed in South America, in the '20s and '30s, international connections between anti-democratic right-wing movements.

benrosenzweig.bsky.social•12 hours ago

George Reid Andrews wrote of Brazil in the '20s that: 'Right-wing xenophobia became a core element of middle-class political mobilization, culminating in the fascist inspired Integralist movement, founded in 1932 in Sao Paulo'.

It's hard not to be reminded of hegemonic US border control fetishism.

benrosenzweig.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Which is to say, if the ritualistic invocation of US 'founding fathers' involves some degree of ambiguity between a Jefferson open to the oppressed masses when convenient, versus a Hamiltonian reactionary xenophobia, the era of concentration camps and mass deportation is trying to impose a choice...

aurelmondon.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Absolutely - far from me the idea to flatten it and remove context-specificity but it is indeed hard not to see the far right learning from each other's successes while the mainstream is doubling down each other's failures...

yggranger.bsky.social•10 hours ago

#xenophobophilia...

danweiss.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Large part of this is supercharged by a paranoid and psychotic memory culture that projects past German crimes onto ‘migrants’ to rationalise its racism and xenophobia.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/germany-election-afd-israel-palestine-free-speech