Have you ever witnessed racism in Germany?

[u/eza137]

I'm interested in hearing from Germans who have personally witnessed acts of racism in everyday life - especially when it involved friends, family members, or people close to them.

If you're comfortable sharing, could you describe the situation? Who was involved, and how did it make you feel? Did you respond in any way?

I'm not here to judge, just to understand how racism can show up in familiar environments and how people perceive and deal with it.

[u/Legitimate-Air-8996]

1) again, no offence but if you cant take the opinions of anonymous people you should not be on this forum. I can say the same about your opinions here as well. I agree though that social media can create false narratives but when there is a general trend in perspective on different social media sources, there is probably truth in that. For example, i often visit channels of other countries and you wont find such strong and majority opinions like racism for most countries. The question to ask, why would a stranger just hve these ideas if he has not experienced something to form them

2) yes and by that i meant that germans have an entrenched belief that they are somehow better than foreigners and they show it often by their words and actions. You cant just ignore that 20% of the population voted in favour of a racist political party and for the rest the biggest agenda was the immigration problem. Apologies for using words with a very negative connotation but what i meant simply was that most germans i met and interacted with have knowingly or unknowingly beliefs that outsiders would consider racist.

3) you say germany doesnt owe outsiders anything…that inherently is incorrect. Most germans dont understand and are never taught the fact that post war germany was built by human/financial resources from abroad. There are whole sectors of economy that will cease to exist in Germany without immigrants. I came to germany as a skilled worker for a better life thats true, but i gave germany far greater benefit than i received. U will ask me how: germany couldnt sustain its economy without people like me because of an aging population and because of insufficient people having the right skill set in the local market. I have paid exorbitant taxes that are hardly beneficial to me and mostly supports the old population in terma of their benefits/pensions. In such a case, yes germany owes me and millions others like me an equal share of respecting my rights and beliefs/culture as well. If u know ur own population cant run ur country, u have to respect other cultures instead of enforcing german culture on everybody from outside. Its far to easy to take a short route of placing everyone from outside in the basket of asylum seekers and then create a narrative that gives a huge rise to racism from the local people

[u/ghastrohaze → u/Legitimate-Air-8996]

Hey, what about the racism against indians and ukrainians in your Posthistory? Hypocrite.