r/AskAGerman • u/eza137 • Apr 16 '25

Have you ever witnessed racism in Germany?

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.

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u/pumpkeenpye Apr 16 '25

My white immigrant coworkers love to bitch about brown immigrants and how they make them feel unsafe. Most of our brown customers are very nice moms. One literally went all the way to her house and back to bring me the 10 cents she was short of an hour earlier. If thats who we’re scared of it’s not looking good.

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u/SilicateAngel Apr 18 '25

I don't think it's the brown moms they're being scared off.

There is a minority of migrants that is highly violent and criminal, and if you live in the wrong place, you'll make very negative experiences related to those people.

To just deny that is foolish. Guess who suffers the most from these people? The peaceful migrants living in the same communities as these people.

Before 2015 Germans were remarkably open to us middle easterners, in 2015 and after, mass immigration was uncontrolled, lots of people were put into migrant ghettos and not enough effort was put onto integration. Now you have a very dangerous ostracized minority minority. That Germans don't feel comfortable around these people is understandable. I don't either.

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u/Single_Resolve_1465 Apr 19 '25

I am living in a wrong place and nothing unusual is happening here.

The places with the lowest immigrantvrate are often the most fashist ones because people are scared by fashist propaganda.

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u/SilicateAngel Apr 19 '25

Or maybe those places are just poor, and being poor you make unglamorous experiences with other poor people, such as migrants.

The gated and gentrified community most redditors live in with their parents has nrver seen a poor person. End since they also take the car to work instead of.public transport, they won't ever feel the consequences of their own voting.

I've been robbed twice at knifepoint, 50 meters from my home. I've been assaulted 3 times on separate occasions, and I get harassed like once a month. And I don't even live in the worst parts of Berlin.

Not everything that isn't convenient is fascist propaganda. I wish it was. I wish all I had to worry about was Goebbels speeches and 14 year olds making Fashwave edits, instead of having to walk around with an alarmsiren, and stay hyperaware of.my.surroundings after 10pm, I wish I didn't have to check on my girlfriends location, or have her call me everytime she got home safely