Post by @Oofnik@kbin.earth

2026-10-01 10:22 UTC

"...there is living amongst us a non-German, foreign race, unwilling and unable to sacrifice its racial characteristics, to deny its feeling, thinking and striving, and which none the less possesses all the political rights that we ourselves have." It's an odd hypothetical which posits the existence of a group that took the same role that the Jews did for Hitler - unable to assimilate because of cultural incompatibility, lack of loyalty to their nation-state, and this being true as a result of a self-isolation of the members of that community. Or perhaps its a cheap shot to appeal to literal Nazis. How about the contemporary far-right? "The Islamic culture is inferior to our Western culture... Mass immigration from Islamic countries means more crime, more terror, more anti-Semitism, and less freedom and democracy. Integration is impossible because Islam is not just a religion, but a totalitarian political ideology." It's almost as if framing the problem as "the minority has big issues integrating" is in itself a kind of dogwhistle, a poisoning the well toward a racist explanation and therefore racist solution.

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@boonhet@lemmy.zip 2026-10-03 07:56

The thing is, if a Jew gets a job, they’re still a Jew. When a gypsy gets a job, they stop being a gypsy. One is a religion, the other is a very specific lifestyle. As for Muslims, while nazis obviously don’t like them either, they actually have a lot in common with nazis. Culturally, they’re everything that nazis want, just wrong shape of holy buildings and generally skin too dark. But they have the same hatred for LGBT people and they’ve got their women in check. The refugee crisis was obviously overblown by racists, but there is a bit of a bit of precedent. Of course, while Sweden takes rape super seriously and thus has the least underrated numbers, they do not allow for ethnicity in crime statistics so the linked paper groups people as born in Sweden to Swedish parents, born in Sweden to immigrant parents, immigrated at age <15, immigrated after age 15. It’s quite obvious from those statistics that the more different people are culturally, the more likely they are to br convicted. And it kind of makes sense if your entire culture sees women as pretty much property.

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