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Transcript/translation:
Her: I believe we mustn’t forget that, even though Russians look European, they are not Europeans, that in a cultural sense they have a different relationship to violence, a different relationship to death…
Interviewer: That they’re more capable/tolerant of enduring suffering or what do you mean?
Her: Well…there they don’t have this liberal, postmodern approach to life, life as a project that everyone shapes for themselves individually, but that life can just end rather quickly with death. I mean eg Russia has a relatively low life-expectancy, I believe 70 for men. That’s just…then one just deals differently with people dying there [Ukraine], right?
This was on Lanz, Germanys biggest political talk-show on German state television. This woman, Florence Gaub, is a political scientist and Deputy Director at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris. This is the institutional racism guiding current European politics.
Literally just the old dehumanizing, orientalist, racist “Russians are just barely human violent hordes that don’t care about their own lives” bs used to justify WW2 and to legitimize the suffering and mass deaths of Russians in the 90s.
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“Well…there they don’t have this liberal, postmodern approach to life” GOOD
Brb gonna go live a postmodern life somewhere.
In LIBERAL, MODERN EUROPE
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German nazism revival speedrun
mainstream revival, it never died in germany
It did, but only in the GDR
One can’t help but wonder why that was the case. I mean, we know why.
Putting the German working class in power = socialism.
Retaining the German bourgeoisie in power = nazism.
Funny how that works.
“What happened to the Nazis after WW2? Ah, um, well, um…”
Frankfurt Police Department 3 days ago: “Showing the flags of the USSR, DPR, LPR, autonomous Crimea justifies the initial suspicion of a criminal offense”, Saying “Donbass belongs to/is part of Russia justifies the initial suspicion of a criminal offense” because these have a “nationalistic character”.
We totally got rid of the Nazis though, no systemic problem with fascism, our cops are the good guys. Criminalizing the flag of our liberators from Nazism to support Nazis against the people that liberated us? Very normal and democratic behaviour.
And, of course, the “freedom and democracy” crowd’s gonna come in yelling about how censoring the press is actually defending press freedom!!
“Freedom of speech?? RED FASCIST!!”
I mean in that tweet the police themselves are literally saying they are upholding the right to assembly…they’ll just film, record and charge you with criminal offenses if you do stuff they don’t like. They and the politicians pushing this are saying exactly what you said - they are defending constitutional rights, freedom and democracy by doing this somehow.
Brownshirts marching with torches through the streets, raging against foreigners, migrants and calling these very politicians “traitors to the people”, Covid denier protests undermining life-saving Covid mandates, that’s all fine and good. Can’t undermine the freedoms and democracy after all.
Germany doesn’t even have freedom of speech, they have “freedom of opinion” as well as the freedom to silence opinions they don’t like.
Possession of Pro-Donbass literature will now be punished, present materials to the local police for immediate burning.
…they got better jobs.
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Russia, fuck kiev, take it all the way to the Portuguese coasts
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Well this absolute moron doubled down on Twitter, so read for yourself
Her being an EU/Nato stooge is just fitting and really telling. It also explains why the Eu and Nato are behaving the way they do. This is the level of institutional racism and rot that guides them and informs their decisions. A racist system full of unhinged racists is incapable of assessing actual reality.
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Liberalism?
Jk, don’t know the name for that one. But it is crazy how she just goes like “No no guys I’m not racist, but here I have some more race science to justify my racism”. Then absolutely grasps at straws, pulls out the land mass thing, the “muh Europe is values” bullshit and that god forsaken, insanely racist map.
Grouping the world in just 8 spheres, fucking half of them just being European. Having one of those spheres just being “Anglos”, while grouping countries as diverse as Saudi-Arabia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Tanzania , Bangladesh and Myanmar together as “African-Islamic”. Then grading all of this on some made up “survival vs self-expression values” scale. It would’ve been less racist had she pulled out the calipers.
And the funny thing is Ukraine, Russia and Belarus are literally within a couple pixels of each other. Or it would be funny if all of this wasn’t so damn dangerous.
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TBH that “stupid arm chair opinion bollocks” got my grandfather blind, so it’s kinda disturbing. And very disappointing.
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He was with partisans as a teenager, escaped Germans through the minefield carrying a friend and his eyes got damaged, then several botched field surgeries left him completely blind.
Germany has brought most of Europe except Britain under its direct capital empire, it is remilitarising, trying to become less dependent on imports and now is depicting Eastern European peoples as less civilised.
Weirdly that’s not from a newspaper in the 30’s.
“Dr Florence Gaub (born 1977) is a Franco-German researcher who specialises in foresight […]” While her colleagues are still hoping for the fourth reich this queen is already out there making up excuses for the Nuremberg Trials 2.0 😎💅
