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Germany protest: Tens of thousands march against far right
| Marchers walked through central Berlin, rallying at the Brandenburg Gate.
Many said they were defending human rights and tolerance, particularly of migrants.
"I'm worried that we are not there for the others, and that we just don't bother or care about loads of people who really need our help," said one demonstrator.
"Nobody just comes because they are bored."
| One woman said: "There are so many people who believe they can abuse human rights and questions of equality and so on, and it's time to say no, there are other people who just want to be open and open-minded."
Gold flags and homemade banners glittered in the autumn sunshine as the march slowly moved across the city.
The mass protest - officially aimed at promoting an open society - was organised by hundreds of groups with different agendas and political affiliations.
| But most of the participants were united by their concern about the influence of the far right on German politics and society.
Three years after Angela Merkel welcomed refugees to Germany, the politics of migration still divides opinion - and even now it has the power to bring citizens on to the streets.
Organisers of Saturday's rally say that more than 240,000 attended. Police said the number of participants was "in the low hundreds of thousands".
| https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45851665
| >FCKAfD
| Good for them
| Yes, unite against a group of people that are already being persecuted and sent to prison because of hate speech laws. They are the biggest threat the German people are facing. So brave.
| The more the left pushes the more support the right gets. Even my dad had to laugh and scoff at what some of those left activists try to achieve. Racist people are actually being created this way.
| >>419599
How many other countries have gun freedom like USA? Free speech protections? Pretty much none. Yet USA are the cucks, you guys are funny.
| We're all cucks. The sooner we accept it and move on to become better instead of arguing whos more of a cuck is when things get better.
| All white countries are full of cucks. Everyone else can have their own countries , even first world ones like japan, but whites aren't allowed. White people had a good run but it looks like the chinks are going to take over.
| >>420026
Lmao chinks are literal slaves in their own ethnostate. Try critizing the government in China, then try the same in USA
| >>419974
Sorry I didn't know freedom meant guaranteed safety? What part of your brain malfunctioned?
| >>420088
You can't criticize politics in the USA without leaving the patriotic and capitalist consense nonsense. Saying that US foreign politics is the cause for fucking up multiple countries over decades and that capitalism sucks ass will make US media brand you as "unpatriotic socialist". So much for your press freedom. What's the point of free speech, if it's limited to bow to capitalism as the "only" and "best" imaginable system?
| But at least you can say it and not "disappear". At least you and your family arent all thrown into jail for life with no trial. Freedom of speech doesnt mean people have to listen to you, or even like what you say. It just means you wont have your tounge literally cut out for saying it.
| >>420181
Then what are the "secret" offshored torture camps maintained by the USA for?
And how it comes that the USA supported (and still supports) regimes where people went to jail for having "wrong" opinions. "Desaparecidos" are literally the "disappeared ones“. What is the USA citizens "freedom of speech" worth if it's based on other peoples opression? You can't just separate these things. Also please have a look what the HUAC was.
| >>420305
Western civilization are not and never were isolated creations. They always stood in exchange with other civilizations, no matter if it was peacefully or by force (and no matter in which direction). Also western civilization was and isn't only a history of progression when it comes to freedom, wealth and peace. It's a bit real-satire when the far-right today presents themselves as defenders of progressive society against the evil evil bad opressive leftists and refugees.
| >>420174
Are you seriously equating "someone doesnt like me" to "the government will imprison me"? Hah wow
| Maybe the plot twist us that being a cuck is good for you.
| >>420740
Yes, and war is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. This is the way a "patriot" in the USA has to think, to believe he stays on "the good side".
| >>420964
>Whites deserve a homeland
>White countries worship the dude whose father was cucked by a "virgin" wife.
Its kinda fate at this point, lets be honest.
| >>421567
While religious misery is the expression of real misery it also is the protest against real misery. Religion is the sigh of the pushed creature, the mind of a heartless world, as it is the mind of mindless states. It is the opium of the people.
| Love how no one denied Joseph being a cuck.
| Americans. Always the first to boast and the least educated of all. They never disappoint.
| *least educated of all* while yes, americans are more ignorant than they should be, I highly doubt they are the "least educated of all".
| >>422117
We Amerians are the least educated *about other countries* because unlike Europeans we've never had neighbors chomping at the bit to wipe us from the map. Yeah, civilization across the pond is obviously superior.
| >>422566
Lets be honest, youre probably a basement dweller cause walking outside in Europe for more than 12 seconds is asking to be raped nowadays. Unless youre a sand nigger whod be doing the raping...
| >>422578
[Piece of shit detected]
Go back to /pol/.
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As for a proper banter to >>422117 ...
You have Article 13, and you all typically have poor nasal/dental structure.
-Sincerely, an actual, informed, unpatriotic american.
| >>422640
>Unpatriotic American
If you dont like the country go somewhere else and please dont look back. Maybe even a non white country to prove how well diversity is Working out for you?
| >>422640 >>422738 yeah go to iran, venezuela or perhaps somalia
you'll love it it's full of nonwhites
| >>422738 diversity is working out great actually, my family lives in Canada which is multicultural country and it's very nice place to live
| >>422939
So it's equal to "if you don't like it here, then go over there", which I find to be a non-argument too in a globalized world-economy.
| >>423040
Just another excuse. Face it, youd never leave cause of white people. And if the US goes to shit, all you nerds will be fighting to get into white majority countries. Just be honest and help perserve the majority you pretend to be against.
| >>423119
The USA went shit under white peoples control, not under non-whites. Traditionally white people in the USA don't like to make their hands dirty, thats why they need slavery, immigration workers from mexico and offshoring labour to china. Without black slaves white USA citizens would have been nacked, because no one of them was willed to harvest cotton on themselves. And without chinese people they wouldn't even conquer the west coast, as there wouldn't be any railroad.
| >>423119
Even today your famous IT-"brands" like apple depend on cheap labour from china. Your universities are the last bastion of intelectuals of multi-ethnic and international origin. But they are threatened by retarded right-winged white redneck anti-intellectuals. They believe their countries success was done by cowboys and john rambo. A lot of white US-Americans are dumb as fuck, and everyone in the world knows it and at the same time is afraid of it cause you got nukes.
| >>423153
And how did you get nukes? By your great american scientists? Haha, you just stole everything and created a monopoly on knowledge. But if other countries, like china, do the same you cry like little babies "uh, thats illegal and against the law". But against your laws which only are recognized because you have nukes. The USA are not the centre of humanity nor are they the fighters for democracy they pretend to be. They give a fuck on it if it seems against their interest.
| Much of this conversation has little to do with the thread at hand. Stay on topic in the future.
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| Rights groups organised the rally, as marchers held placards reading "Indivisible" and "United against racism".
The BBC's Jenny Hill in Berlin says even the organisers seemed surprised by the turnout.
Support for the anti-immigration AfD party has risen in recent years.
The Alternative for Germany entered parliament for the first time last year, becoming the biggest opposition party, and is expected to make a strong showing in elections in the southern state of Bavaria on Sunday.