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« on: November 04, 2019, 05:27:22 AM » |
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I actually believe the AfD when they say that this hadn't been approved by their board. Then again, most political parties' social media posts aren't and the problem is in fact that the AfD is commissioning people to run their social media accounts who apparently see no problem with comments like that, leading to the not-too-far-fetched conclusion that such thinking must be relatively commonplace within the AfD's ranks or that at the very least the AfD is obviously attracting such people.
I've also wondered whether the apparent anti-miscegenation message of his post (since Benigna Munsi is the daughter of an Indian immigrant and an ethnic German) was "accidental" on the perpetrator's part, with him originally assuming that she must have been the daughter of Muslim asylum seekers from Africa who are robbing money from poverty-stricken German pensioners' by leeching on the German welfare system or some similar nonsense. It's matter of debate what's worse or whether there's even any difference between the two: being outright racist by worrying about the racial purity of the German people or assuming that every brown person automatically fulfills some racist cliché.
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