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Today in Cultural Appropriation

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by MisterCreosote, May 2, 2018.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    If whites don't appropriate black music, does the larger culture ever come to appreciate the brilliance of the early, black artists?
     
  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Germany has acknowledged their role, and is now one of the least safe places in the word for a Jew to live.

    They're so culturally woke, that they allowed more than 1.7 million Muslims to settle there since 201o.

    Should we consider Muslim youths who want to exterminate Jews guilty of cultural appropriation of the Nazia, or does there zeal to murder Jews pre-date the Nazis enough to exempt them from such charges?
     
  3. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Link?
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    google.com
     
  5. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Maybe you wanted to argue France's case as being more anti-Jew than Germany. In that case, I'm willing to listed to your argument.

    In the mean time, if you're Jewish, and in Germany, it's probably best to not wear a kippah.

    Jewish men should be careful before donning a skullcap in public, the country’s incoming anti-Semitism czar said, echoing controversial remarks from a top German Jewish leader amid a rise in anti-Semitic attacks, mostly from Muslim immigrants.

    In an interview with The Times of Israel, Dr. Felix Klein also said the recent increase in anti-Semitic violence on German streets is due to a “brutalization of our political culture,” and argued that the beating of an Israeli last week in Berlin proved that German Jews’ concerns about the major influx of Muslim and Arab refugees were legitimate.
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    Asked if a Jew in today’s Germany can wear a kippah in public without fear, Klein, recently appointed as the German government’s first special envoy for Jewish life and combating anti-Semitism, replied: “In principle, yes. But not always.”

    Jews can generally feel safe on Germany’s streets, even when they are recognizably Jewish, he went on. “But they have to be vigilant. It’s not entirely without danger; one has to be alert. In the end, everyone has to assess the risks for himself. The danger is there. But I wouldn’t necessarily agree with those who say it’s absolutely impossible to show one’s Jewishness in public in Germany.”

    Klein’s comments came just a few days after an Israeli man wearing a kippah was beaten with a belt in Berlin by a man yelling “Yahudi,” Arabic for Jew. Adam Armoush, the 21-year-old Arab-Israeli victim, later said he donned the traditional Jewish head covering as an experiment, trying to disprove his friend who believed it was dangerous to wear a kippah in public.


    German gov’t anti-Semitism czar agrees it can be unsafe to wear kippah in public
     
  6. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Um.

    Germany reports similar number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2017 from previous year - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

    Published Monday in the Berlin daily newspaper Tagesspiegel, the report — based on police statistics delivered to Bundestag Vice President Petra Pau of the Left Party — indicated there were 1,453 incidents reported in 2017 — about the same as in 2016, which had a total of 1,468. Right-wing-oriented perpetrators committed about 95 percent of the crimes, the report said.
     
  7. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    A month after Merkel decided to open her country’s borders to over 1 million mostly Muslim migrants in 2015, Germany’s four main intelligence agencies contributed to a little-noticed report warning, “We are importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples as well as a different societal and legal understanding.” The intelligence services were pessimistic as to Germany’s ability to assimilate so many newcomers, whose presence, they feared, would only exacerbate pre-existing social tensions.

    A different report released last year by the Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee found “widespread anti-Semitism” among the 68 Syrian and Iraqi refugees the researchers surveyed. “What do we know about Jews? Sure, a religion, but they falsified it,” Bader, a 33-year-old from Damascus, told the researchers. “We know this. They have a book like ours and they have prophets and we recognize their prophets and everything, but they have faked the book that was revealed by God. … The Koran states also that it is not the same book.” Partly as a result of these sorts of attitudes, the former chairwoman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Charlotte Knoblauch said that “Jewish life is only possible in public under police protection and the strictest security precautions.”


    Is Germany Capable of Protecting Its Jews?
     
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    From previous year...

    Jesus Fucking Christ, wearing a kippah, over a million Muslims immigrated to Germany in 2015.

    I wonder why the 2016 and 2017 numbers are so similar.

    So concerned were they not to appear indifferent to the sufferings of foreign Muslims, however, that many Germans welcomed them without properly considering the impact this move might have on their Jewish fellow citizens. It was only after he left office last year that former president Joachim Gauck admitted he is “terrified of multiculturalism,” adding: “I find it shameful … when anti-Semitism among people from Arab states is ignored or declared intelligible with reference to Israeli policies. Or if criticism of Islam is immediately suspected of growing out of racism and hatred of Muslims.” Similarly, Merkel waited until this February to publicly refer to “no-go areas,” high-crime, largely Muslim immigrant neighborhoods across Europe wherein state authorities fear to tread, and the very existence of which have long been furiously denied by liberals as an Islamophobic invention. “There are such areas and one has to call them by their name and do something about them,” Merkel said.

    A month after Merkel decided to open her country’s borders to over 1 million mostly Muslim migrants in 2015, Germany’s four main intelligence agencies contributed to a little-noticed report warning, “We are importing Islamic extremism, Arab anti-Semitism, national and ethnic conflicts of other peoples as well as a different societal and legal understanding.” The intelligence services were pessimistic as to Germany’s ability to assimilate so many newcomers, whose presence, they feared, would only exacerbate pre-existing social tensions.


    Is Germany Capable of Protecting Its Jews?
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Expelled, exterminated, same difference.

    For the plain fact is that most of the migrants who have come (and continue to come) to Europe hail from Muslim-majority countries that long ago expelled their once-vibrant Jewish populations, where anti-Semitism figures prominently in state propaganda, and where belief in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories is widespread
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  10. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    The vast majority of violent attacks against German Jews are committed by the German right.
     
  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    The article doesn't say that. It says "crimes", not attacks.

    I guess the Jews in Germany are just "scared" of the over one million Muslims who've recently immigrated to Germany in the last couple of years.

    They've even got Merkel to buy into the hysteria.

    Merkel made a similar statement on January 27, Holocaust Memorial Day. “It is inconceivable and shameful that no Jewish institution can exist without police protection, whether it is a school, a kindergarten or a synagogue,” she lamented. Her comments were lent a particularly ominous resonance by a protest the previous month at which several thousand people of mainly Muslim and migrant background denounced the United States’s decision to relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. A mere 100 yards from Berlin’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, demonstrators burned Israeli flags and shouted anti-Semitic slogans.
     
  12. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    I’m pretty sure the Nazis didn’t think of the Jews and Gypsies as ‘other white people’.
    Just as the English didn’t when they expelled the Jews, the Spanish didn’t when They expelled the Jews, the Russians didn’t when the confined them to shtetls. The Italians didn’t consider the Jews white when they confined them to their ghettos and Jewish quarters. And while Napoleon has a relatively open mind on Jews, the Catholic Church did not.
     
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