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BBC: Why more young men in Germany are turning to the 'far right'
BBC ^ | Feb 10 | Jessica Parker (Berlin Correspondent )

Posted on 02/10/2025 7:19:06 AM PST by RandFan

"What my parents taught me is that they used to live in peace and calm, without having to have any fear in their own country," says 19-year-old Nick. "I would like to live in a country where I don't have to be afraid."

I meet him in a small bar on a street corner in the ex-mining town of Freiberg, Saxony – where he is playing darts.

It's a cold, foggy night in February with just over two weeks to go until Germany's national election.

Nick and his friend Dominic, who is 30, are backers or sympathetic to Alternative für Deutschland - a party that has been consistently polling second in Germany for more than a year and a half, as the far right here and elsewhere in Europe attracts an increasing number of young people, particularly men, into its orbit.

One particular reason why Nick – and many other young German men – say they are afraid is the number of attacks in Germany involving suspects who were asylum seekers – most recently, the fatal stabbing of a toddler and a man in a park in the Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg. Immigration is now Nick and Dominic's main concern, although they don't oppose it in all forms.

"The people who integrate, who learn, who study here, do their work - I have no problems with them," says Dominic, though he is critical of anyone he sees as taking advantage of the asylum system.

"But these days such statements are seen as hostile," says Dominic. "You're called a Nazi because of Germany's past."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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To: RandFan

When they say extreme right it makes me suspect that there is an extreme left accusing the opposition.


21 posted on 02/10/2025 7:47:16 AM PST by californian by choice (Who are those who believe in science?)
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To: PGR88
Why more young men in Germany are turning to the 'far right'

Because they speak MAGA word for word but with a funny accent.


22 posted on 02/10/2025 7:47:28 AM PST by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: Skwor

It’s not just the murders and knifings, the stranger-on-stranger rape rates have skyrocketed. In Sweden they’re almost 100% committed by the ‘rapefugees’.

The real problem is that ‘certain’ people do not integrate, they have no intention of integrating. They intent on taking over by having more babies, and they are winning. They may not realize it but stopping this invasion needs to happen now, at the very least - if not mass deportations.

Germany is particularly difficult, the population still has a guilt complex.


23 posted on 02/10/2025 7:48:24 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: RandFan

BBC’s “far right” is probably our Dick Durbin


24 posted on 02/10/2025 7:48:33 AM PST by tsowellfan
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To: RandFan

Anyone to the Right of Stalin is Rightwing to the BBC.


25 posted on 02/10/2025 7:48:41 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: teeman8r

The whole Left-Right dichotomy makes no sense. It’s a deliberate ploy to prevent you from truly understanding the political and sociological relationships.

Why is it that if you go extreme left or extreme right, you essentially end up in the same place. A loss of all human rights. It’s a very deliberate construct to limit your choices.

It’s why the Nolan chart was created. A two dimensional map of political relationships.


26 posted on 02/10/2025 7:50:41 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: monkeyshine

Far right means far left doesn’t like it.


27 posted on 02/10/2025 7:58:48 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: RandFan
They've come to their senses?

Evolution has not favored those on the hard left?

Reality has suddenly descended upon them?

It's the Trump effect?

28 posted on 02/10/2025 7:59:54 AM PST by Savage Beast (In a certain way I felt very safe because I had God on my side. --Donald Trump)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

LOL.


29 posted on 02/10/2025 8:00:54 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: RandFan

Last time I visited Berlin, it looked like a Middle Eastern country with soo many women with their hair covered and men who were obviously not European. It didn’t look very Aryan.


30 posted on 02/10/2025 8:05:35 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: monkeyshine

But there is this Muslims and Germans having to live together. The two groups that genuinely have caused so much evil in the last 100 years now get to experience of living with the crappyest people in the world


31 posted on 02/10/2025 8:07:51 AM PST by datricker (Go Trump/Vance!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

32 posted on 02/10/2025 8:16:44 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
The guy who literally wrote the book on fascism said bluntly that it was socialism.

Exactly. It's the Nazi party - National Socialist Workingmen's Party.

33 posted on 02/10/2025 8:18:39 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: RandFan

If you can’t claim your political opposition is “far right” then it’s more difficult to make opposition to leftism illegal, and to jail those who are effective in communicating a message of liberty and freedom.

That’s why words like “extreme” or “far-right” or “Ultra-MAGA” are used in the political context.

If you allow the leftists to define you they will throw you in jail or worse based on their definitions, which also allows leftist judges to sentence you harshly.


34 posted on 02/10/2025 8:19:46 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: T.B. Yoits
I was thinking of "The Doctrine of Fascism" by Mussolini.

Some was asked what was the difference between Socialism and Fascism and they answered dryly that fascists were socialists that still understood the principles of agriculture.

35 posted on 02/10/2025 8:38:39 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: RandFan

“The people who integrate, who learn, who study here, do their work - I have no problems with them”

And there is your weakness. If they are polite and subservient they’re welcome to breed your women?


36 posted on 02/10/2025 9:34:46 AM PST by dljordan
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To: RandFan
"I put 'far right' in quotes hope Mods dont mind."

They're just trying to associate these individuals with 1939 Nazis. Anyone in the U.S. who loves their country, and has any patriotic feelings is labeled a nationalist and far right by the fascists on the left, insinuating a connection to Hitler and the Third Reich.

37 posted on 02/10/2025 11:51:02 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: dfwgator
"Well the Nazis were “far left”, so what’s the problem?"

The left doesn't realize that Hitler was a socialist, and planned to bring his own form of socialism to the German people. He said Russia didn't know how to do socialism.

38 posted on 02/10/2025 11:52:51 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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