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  • ross1948 20:18 on June 7, 2020 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Berlin Senate, , hippies, , , undesirables, weltanschauung   

    Berlin Buzz-Word For Belly-Achers! ‘Weltanschauung?’ 


    A most peculiar addition to the otherwise rather predictable list of ’equality’ grievance categories popped up in Germany’s decreasingly German capital last week…

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    …when Berlin’s state legislature passed an ‘anti-discrimination’ diktat requiring ‘public authoritiesincluding police and public schools’ not to discriminate on the following grounds – ‘background, skin colour, gender, religion, physical or mental disability, worldview, age, sexual identity…

     

    ….,lack of German language skills, a chronic illness, income, education or occupation.’
    https://euobserver.com/tickers/148568

    Most of the categories are at least intelligible, though exactly what constitutes ‘background’ might be interesting.

    However, what about ‘WORLDVIEW?’

    EUObs referenced DW, so I went there to have a look, incidentally noticing that both the police unions and Germany’s Federal Interior Minister, Herr Seehofer…

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    Seehofer ….Mama Stasi

    I wonder if the Berlin ‘background’ category is aimed at outlawing any effort by Germans to give priority to their own fellow-citizens before Merkel’s crimmigrant horde?

    …have expressed concern that Berlin’s charter for belly-achers might hamper law enforcement.

    But the notoriously biased DW failed to clarify what ‘worldview’ actually means, if anything!

    But hold on just a goldarn minute!

    Weltanschauung entered English in the 1860s from German meaning “world-view.”

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    It occurred to me to check if it’s meant to be ‘Weltanschauung’ – and so it seems to be.

    And though I use that word now and then…

    ( yes, quite often, and here’s one example –“Zusammengebissenen Zähnen?” Goebbels Grins In His Grave! )

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    …its definition will surely give Berlin’s ‘Discrimination Sticky-Beaks’ some seriously hard work!

    ….a person’s philosophic, moral, and religious conclusions — including e.g. the duality of spirit and matter — and perhaps their conclusions about the origins of the universe and of the development of life….conclusions about the state, society, politics and economic activity.
    “A person’s conclusions about existence (however tentative) at a particular time of life, after taking a good look at everything they have come across about”.

    And so if a police officer is about to accost, arrest, or interrogate a dodgy character, the officer must be clear in his or her own mind that the perceived Weltanschauung of the dodgy character is not causing the officer to discriminate?

    My best guess is that the absurd inclusion of Weltanschauung on an already absurd list was inspired by the far-left Berlin ruling class’s sympathy with Kreuzberg klutzes.

    Even when I first visited Berlin in the 1960s, that district was known to be a nest of hippies and freakos, many of them spaced out a lot of the time, and thus with a very weird view of the world.

    Concepts such as paying for their needs were alien to their Weltanschauung, hence many buildings there were infested with squatters…

    …and many of those were anarchists, not ill-disposed to violent assaults on innocent people going about their lawful business, including police officers.

    Others were marxists of various brands.

    They were a cancer in Society, but no city government ever made more than sporadic efforts to clean Kreuzberg up.

    Nowadays there may be more such no-go ( for normal people!) zones…

    DWs Dubious Denials On Menacing Migrants! 

    …perhaps around Sonnen Allee?

    I’m sure German readers can advise on that, and on how ‘Weltanschauung discrimination’ may be detected and dealt with!

     

     
  • ross1948 00:09 on September 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , Berlin Senate, , , , , , , , ,   

    AfD On 15% – Meaning 40% Of Berlin’s German Voters? 


    Nice to see that the patriot party is polling 15% in the run-up to Berlin’s Senate vote next Sunday.

    Given the number of resident aliens, often with dual nationality (Berlin comes third in the global chart for Turk-populated cities) that possibly translates into a much higher percentage of the actual German electorate in the capital who plan to cast their ballots for the AfD.


    demoturkgerman

    /http://www.thelocal.de/20160909/polls-show-far-right-afd-could-win-15-percent-in-berlin-vote

    My ‘40%’ is pure conjecture to provoke touchy BritBrat millenials who also live and vote there. 

    However, damn sure there’s a lot of Berlin voters, as in the rest of Germany, whose first loyalty lies abroad. Certainly more than 15%. They will likely vote for the Red Linke Partei, or for the far-left Greens..

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    • green party red
    • …whom The Local, aka The Leftal, whitewashes, describing them as the pro-environmental party!

    As opposed to their usual biased label of ‘far-right’ for the AfD!

    So what’s to be done about the alien electorate? 

    An interesting option emerges from an article in The Leftal’s Austrian edition.

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    • Pay undesirables to get lost!

    Just over half of Turkish migrants living in Austria have thought about leaving the country, and almost 40 percent would be tempted to do so if they were offered money…

    http://www.thelocal.at/20160908/survey-almost-40-percent-of-turks-would-leave-austria-for-money

    That’s according to a survey by an outfit, allegedly connected to the wannabe caliph in Ankara. The strangely named (if it is pro-Erdogan) Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD) has produced some interesting info.


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    A large number of the malcontents whined about ‘Islamophobia’ in their responses, but the good news is that 53.5 percent said they would immediately leave the country if they had the chance, and 39.8 percent stated they would do so if they were offered financial compensation.

    A lot of the latter are greedy SOBs – 43.8 percent said they would only go if given €100,000, while the remainder would be content with a lower sum.

    A bayonet prodding their backsides would seem a fairer price for Austrian tax-payers to pay, but let’s not be too quick to dismiss the idea of paying the arrogant brutes.

    All the hassle and hooplah involved in deportations can be expensive, especially when so many judges are likely to take the side of the Enemy Within. Belgium Stabs Its Police in the Back 

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    Basically, an easy way forward would be to make them as ill at ease as possible, perhaps bi-weekly summonses to the Interior Ministry  – other suggestions welcome, please, readers – then make an offer they can’t refuse.

    But no way a hundred thousand euros.   

    As the burghers of Hamelin said…

    ‘A thousand guilders? Come, say fifty!’

     
    • Diana 13:02 on September 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply

      Almost as bad as London, now with an English minority. Which of course was why London voted for Brexit.
      Good luck to the AfD.

      Like

    • Jerry German 15:52 on September 14, 2016 Permalink | Reply

      It is sometimes hard to hear German voices in Berlin.

      Like

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