Now we just need to get Germany serious about cracking down on antifa.
Way back in the early 90s, I was in Germany. I recall speaking to a guy in his twenties. He was from a wealthy family and he was (by terms of diplomas etc.) well educated.
His thing, with some of his friends, was to go into the city on weekends and brawl with right wing neo-Nazi gangs. Back then, the term they used for themselves was "gegen Nazis" (against Nazis). At the time, I thought it was kind of honorable -- young Germans who were determined to not allow a revival of Nazism in their country.
In hindsight, I see him and his buddies as just one group of political brawlers who were out fighting with a different group of political brawlers. One big change since then was in German society. Back then, their society was still smarting from the terrorist attacks of the Red Army Faction and left wing terrorism was seen as bad. Today, it seems like antifa is practically admired with the leading politicians winking and nodding at their street thuggery. And Germany is not a better place for this change. Far from it.
Way back in the early 90s, I was in Germany. I recall speaking to a guy in his twenties. He was from a wealthy family and he was (by terms of diplomas etc.) well educated.
His thing, with some of his friends, was to go into the city on weekends and brawl with right wing neo-Nazi gangs. Back then, the term they used for themselves was "gegen Nazis" (against Nazis). At the time, I thought it was kind of honorable -- young Germans who were determined to not allow a revival of Nazism in their country.
In hindsight, I see him and his buddies as just one group of political brawlers who were out fighting with a different group of political brawlers. One big change since then was in German society. Back then, their society was still smarting from the terrorist attacks of the Red Army Faction and left wing terrorism was seen as bad. Today, it seems like antifa is practically admired with the leading politicians winking and nodding at their street thuggery. And Germany is not a better place for this change. Far from it.
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