If you’ve read the thread posted by palantir on X and are shocked, please read this piece that @tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote 9 months ago. Palantir has not been shy about its fascist agenda, and neither has Karp, who has been rambling about Western Supremacy in text & video form for a while now
Totally fine that large parts of the British government are jumping into bed with a company whose public statements are "we are, at a fundamental level, absolutely batshit crazy neofascists".
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2023.
Organizations in Germany from the Anne Frank House to anti-racist and feminist initiatives decry CDU-led defunding of critical democracy building initiatives.
"Diversity is not a funding goal of the state."
taz.de/Familienmini...
Springtime at UCD
"Der parteilose Politiker wolle ein konservativeres Deutschland, was zwar sein gutes Recht sei. Er versuche aber, dieses Ziel nicht im politischen Diskurs zu erreichen, sondern mit dem einzigen Machtmittel, das er habe: Geld für die Kulturförderung." ...
www.deutschlandfunk.de/klima-der-an...
Merz 2023: "Kleine Paschas"-Aussage
Merz 2023: "Zahnarzt"-Aussage
Merz 2025: "Stadtbild"-Aussage
Merz 2026: "Zuwanderer"-Aussage
...und dann findet sich noch dies, das, teils bis 2018 zurückreichend. Man könnte in der medialen Betrachtung langsam von einem gefestigten Weltbild reden, just saying.
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
#OtD 16 Mar 1978 the Beyazıt massacre took place in Istanbul when seven students were killed and 41 injured at the University of Istanbul. The bomb, by right-wing nationalists, targeted left-wing students. No one was punished for the murders stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7778...
„Die Justiz muss Beweise sammeln und wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit ermitteln. Die rechtliche Aufarbeitung des Massakers ist ein Hebel, um das Regime unter Druck zu setzen. Doch statt die Mittel des Völkerrechts zu nutzen, wird jetzt blind bombardiert“, so Navid Kermani.
Photo of ucd protest
Probably the largest protest I’ve seen in UCD - in solidarity with the UCD medical student who suffered horrific #GBV I’m proud to see so many of my students here.
Buchhändler, die die Demokratie gefährden, wer kennt sie nicht....🤦♂️
Weimer lässt Buchhandlungen durch Verfassungsschutz überprüfen....
Kulturkampf voll im Gang?
Wer meint, die Gefährdung der offenen Gesellschaft gehe nur von extremen rechten Rand aus, irrt vielleicht.
www.zeit.de/feuilleton/a...
The special issue of New German Critique on "German Memory Politics at a Crossroads" I co-edited is now out! My long introductory essay, "The Perils of Negative Exceptionalism: German Memory Culture from Model to McCarthyism," is available open access:
read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-c...
Would anyone have come across a retelling of a Grimms Fairytale where the genders were reversed? Snow White would be amazing, but any others would work too!
Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.
»Die Umbenennung ist ein Symbol dafür, dass eine rassistische Fremdbezeichnung für Schwarze Menschen, Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft, aus dem öffentlichen Raum verbannt wurde.«
www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193...
Katie Hopkins column in 2015 headline Rescue boats? I'd use gunships to stop migrants
ANALYSIS Is it time for gunboats to help stop the people smugglers? With the PM's and Labour's poll numbers tanking as the latest official figures confirm the numbers of migrants and small boat crossings are increasing at a shocking rate, is it now time for a different approach? Jon Craig Chief political correspondent @joncraig
The mainstreaming of far right discourse 2015 to 2025 in two pictures. The first is from a right wing troll that caused widespread outrage. The second is a supposedly serious journalist just asking questions
Subarctic Monkeys
anti-Algerian pogrom in the GDR 50 years ago; v good research into a neglected event
Das Foto zeigt Details einer Mahnwache vor dem ausgebrannten Haus in Solingen: Fotos der Verstorbenen sind aufgestellt, Blumen abgelegt. Text: Urteil im Prozess um die tödliche Brandstiftung in Solingen. Lebenslange Haft und anschließende Sicherungsverwahrung für Daniel S.
In ihrem Plädoyer kritisierte Nebenklageanwältin Seda Başay-Yıldız das bisherige Verfahren scharf: „Was hier passiert ist, ist ein Spiegelbild unserer Gesellschaft. Alles, was nach rechts aussieht, wird kleingeredet oder am besten gar nicht ermittelt.“ taz.de/Nach-dem-Bra...
A new interview with @mahaelhissy.bsky.social in @newgermanbooks.bsky.social on her 'Accidental Portents' project and upcoming podcast series 'Ne7ki' with Palestinian writers in and outside Gaza. www.new-books-in-german.com/interview-wi...
This is one of those moments when the hollowness of our democratic systems becomes visible to the public. Facts are verified, but deliberation is pure performance, and accountability is nowhere. The system absorbs truth without ever acting on it.
Terrifying police violence in Berlin again today, against protestors for Palestine of course. Police in heavy gear hammering away at peaceful demonstrators. And the fascists aren't even technically in power (yet)
In spite of all the professional chaos lately, I'm pleased to see this piece out today in early view and open access in Unterrichtspraxis. It's the culmination of a couple of years of writing and thinking about these issues, which are more important now than ever. Out in print later this year!
New research published by The Lancet finds that economic sanctions imposed by the USA and EU are associated with more than 500,000 deaths per year since 1970, five times more than deaths by war.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
You can hear more about the book and my chapter in particular here on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Nice to hear my research discussed on German radio! www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-ganze-ge...
In Germany, you can’t make connections between antisemitism and other forms of racism. In Britain, you can’t say they are different. Make it make sense.
