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This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is what political correctness gone amok looks like:
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/racist-violence-and-incitement-against-refugees-explodes-across-germanyAfter the so called sex attacks of Cologne this New Year's Eve,
Yeah, I wouldn't call rape, fingering, fondling and making the extra-effort to memorize sexually explicit and threatening terms in a foreign language just so you can attack foreign women verbally "so-called sex-attacks".
It is not clear who the Oriental man really is. One day, he is described in German media as "Arab", the other day he is called "North African".
Because there is no term that covers both ethnicities, they look alike, and "Oriental" is antiquated, you dipshit.
We are told that their culture, their religion and their patriarchal background makes them this way.
How about we ask the experts on this? Oh, they are saying there is a huge machismo-component in arab culture? And there are arabic cultures where women count as second-rate humans? And the arab women's rights movements are exclusively carried by young people?
we are confronted with weird guides from European governments which should "teach" immigrants and refugees how to behave in Europe. And for that reason, we also face racist bans like the one in Bornheim near Cologne which banned all male refugees from the swimming bath.
And at that point, the article somehow fails to point out that all male refugees are banned from this public pool because some male refugees sexually harassed women.
(Maybe the author is one of those people who thinks that sexual harassment is an acceptable collateral damage that european society simply has to accept as the new normal.)
Just days ago, Sahra Wagenknecht, a leading politician from Germany's leftist Die Linke Party, proclaimed that "the right to hospitality" fades with time and that it is not possible to take "millions of people."
Oh sure. Sahra Wagenknecht is racist for pointing out that Germany cannot take in millions of people who don't speak german, who have little interest in learning german (prefering to set up cultural ghettos where they can stay among themselves), who have different morals (e.g. towards female sexuality, LGBT-people, Jews...) ...
These people need language-courses, they need somewhere they can live, they need an education that makes them ready for employment, they need jobs...
I have an idea: The US should take in a few million people who speak neither english nor spanish. The US should build millions of appartments (on taxpayer-dime) to house those immigrants. Oh, and all of those millions of unemployed immigrants are now competitors to the US-unemployed. Which means that the US just got several millions of people who came out of nowhere and qualify for social aid.
Yeah, I have a good feeling about this. That would totally work out without a hitch.
There can be no denying the ugliness of the events in Cologne.
Then maybe the author shouldn't have downplayed the rapes and sexual assault with the very first line of his article???????????
Politicians in other European countries now tout the "Austrian model,” ignoring that fact that it violates international law, according to several law experts. The legal argument against it is very simple: The right of asylum cannot be denied to those who qualify.
What the author prefers to ignore here is that these millions of people coming to Europe come in two categories: refugees and immigrants. Refugees come from war-torn countries. And then there are economic immigrants who simply want to move to a country with a higher standard of living. THESE AREN'T REFUGEES. THESE ARE REGULAR IMMIGRANTS AND THEY DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO ASYLUM.
Perhaps this is why none of our leaders here are pressuring Morocco to take back its citizens who caused so much trouble on New Year's Eve in Cologne.
None of the european leaders is pressuring Morocco on that because there is no legal framework for that process.
It. simply. doesn't. exist.
Morocco and the european countries simply do not have legal agreements on what happens to moroccan immigrants.
These acts are not a response to anything; they emanate from pure hatred towards people who have already lost everything in war-torn Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan.
Or maybe... Maybe that hatred comes from the fact that the european governments have continually cut back social services and government subsidies for appartments. Maybe the european people compare the neglect that the european governments have for them to those very same governments now stumbling over their own feet in a hurry to accomodate and supply the immigrants and ALL OF A SUDDEN, OUT OF NOWHERE, governments suddenly have the money and the political will to help people who need affordable housing, cheap education and jobs.
In the coming weeks, Syrian families will continue to wash up on the shores of Europe with nothing after having fled from Assad and IS’s brutality. Sadly, we are no longer able to tell them that they have reached safety.
What a powerful, ignorant, cherry-picking closing-statement.
We should end this article on an emotional note that totally disregards immigrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Northern Africa or the Balkans. (Those people just get in the way of inducing guilt in the reader. "Syria" is so hot right now!)
Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
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There will be state-elections in 3 of Germany's 16 states in March. Anticipate huge wins for the right-wingers and Neo-Nazis. Not because the voters agree with the Neo-Nazis or their policy-proposals for the future... Far from that.
People will vote for the Neo-Nazis in protest. Because of the failures of the establishment parties in the past. These votes will be intended as a punishment for the government-parties.
And the media will howl and complain how Germany is on its way back to Nazi-times... conveniently overlooking that this political statement has a reason:
People are pissed.
1. Where was this let's-spend-taxpayer-money-and-get-shit-done-for-people-in-need attitude when it was about Germans???
2. Merkel fucked up: She allowed the situation to escalate, instead of managing the stream of immigrants nice and orderly and setting up plans how to process those huge amounts of people administratively. (For example: Some immigrants are complaining that they have been waiting for 1 year now to have their immigration applications processed. Why does it take so long? Because the responsible agencies didn't see an increase in their workstaff despite getting masses of new cases to process.)
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I am so sick of this political correct bullshit I could scream. Left wing papers and blogs don't even REPORT what the migrants are doing to the citizens of Europe. It's completely one sided. It's disgusting. 
"So-called sex attacks". Eff you, you misogynistic pig! 
