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Over 100 German legislators have proposed banning the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, citing its aggressive and combative actions against the constitution.

The proposal, which requires support from the Bundestag, the upper house, or the federal government, aims to demonstrate the AfD’s extreme right-wing activities.

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[–] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 23 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Best of luck, guys.

I know that doing things that can eliminate a political opposition are incredibly ethically sensitive, but it's demonstrably the correct choice here. I just wish that it wasn't a choice that had to be made. How are these far right parties getting so many votes? Where have we failed?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Where have we failed?

You know how Europe is mostly ethnically homogeneous? Well thanks to European and American escapades into the Middle East they're becoming less ethnically homogeneous, and because of that xenophobic right wing rhetoric works on them a lot more than Americans. Add the post-covid economy and other legitimate issues where those immigrants can be scapegoated and Europeans welcome far right parties with open arms, because unlike Americans they're not inoculated against these ideas.

Someone might point to the result of this election, to which I say there's a reason people are angry at the DNC and it's because they could've won if they were actually trying. It's completely different from Europe where young people are shifting right.

Anyway what I wanna say is that this outcome was basically inevitable because in a parliamentary system like in most European countries the government will be too moderate to stop it.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I didn't know that Italians and french had the same language, traditions and skin color. I had assumed that there had been riots in the streets when Italy joined the ECSC in 1951.

You're totally right, but I hate the whole "Sweden/Europe was ethnically homogeneous" line that centrists say.

[–] Saleh 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Inside their countries they used to be. Italian migrant workers faced racist backlash in Germany at first. Then it shifted to Turkish migrant workers, then to Jugoslawian refugees, now to Arabs but also back to Turkish people as they are perceived as Muslim. Of course all minorities, European or not are facing racism, only the focus shifted.

Now we have a Nazis cooperating across Europe on two notions. The first being "Whites vs. Muslims" the other being that supposedly only ethnically homogenous countries could work, so Czech Republic for Czechs, Germany for Germans, Hungary for Hungarians, Netherlands for Dutch...

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 1 week ago

Yup, Immigration and racism have always been a huge debate in Europe.

Some Swedish wikipedia articles i recently found about pre-ww2 immigration and refugee debates:

https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mosaisk?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

https://sv-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/J-passen?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US

Europe has never been ethnically homogenous.

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