they also believe that the reason for our schools performing like shit are “the immigrants being uncivilized islamics”
edit: and also they are teachers, TEACHERS! this is who has power over children in this country
Germany is looking bleak AF right now, the US really fucked you. I would expect many more reactionaries to come crawling out of the sewers in the months ahead
With friends like these who needs enemies
Germany is looking bleak AF right now, the US really fucked you
Nah we fucked ourselves thank you we are more than capable of fucking ourselves
The history of teachers in germany, as a group, isn’t really one of a progressive force. I think the only time that was true than slightly higher than average was in the 80s after the reforms surrounding education allowed people who weren’t landed gentry to study, which so many did we had an overflow of teachers who all ended up driving taxis, as the joke goes.
the thing is that im in the former gdr currently. it is really fucking heartbreaking that 40 years of socialism amounted to nothing at all.
The education system in the former GDR was fully purged immediately following reunification. I don’t recall the exact number, maybe something like half of all educators were dismissed on ideological / political grounds. I know the precise number and context is in Stasi State or Socialist Paradise by Bruni de la Motte.
That is totally depressing and heartbreaking
Is your history just not taught? Like how does the unified state deal with the DDR period? Is the prevailing narrative that it was a mistake, or an anomalous condition imposed by outside imperialist forces? Where did the class consciousness go?
the modern german state is pretty much defined by opposition to the gdr:
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our national holiday is “reunification day” with the day of the attempted counterrevolution in 1953 previously filling that role in the west
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almost all members of the former gdr state apparatus were purged in the 90s, including people like teachers and university professors.
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the entire east german military was purged and there were criminal cases initiated against people formerly serving in the border troops. no such things had ever been done by the frg government against nazi troops btw. also unlike former personnel of the nazi army, officers of the gdr military are not allowed to be addressed by rank.
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gdr mass organizations like the “ernst thälmann pioneer organisation” have been declared “unconstitutional” while far-right parties like the afd are left unscathed despite creeping ever closer to actual political power
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the gdr is constantly being demonized and equated with nazi germany. schoolchildren are made to participate in performative denouncements of “the two dictatorships on german soil”. but while remembrance of the hitlerite tyranny is oftentimes paired with platitudes like “at least he built the autobahn”, media about the gdr is filled with -level horror stories about the stasi. in modern german history curriculum the role of communists resisting the hitlerite tyranny is consistently played down.
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class consciousness is being combatted by the media propagating racism. first against vietnamese people in the 90s and now against people of middle-eastern descent. this constant racist propaganda sponsored by the bourgeoisie is the main reason for the rise of the fascist afd party, though you wouldnt hear that from west german political analysts. they instead claim that east germans simply have a pathological “democracy deficit” due to “growing up in a dictatorship”
so yeah its really fucking bleak.
Like how does the unified state deal with the DDR period?
Horseshoe theory bordering on holocaust minimization. Also, we had purges of socialists that were carried out with a fervor never seen when it came to purging fascists after WW2, absolutely crushing amounts of end of history / capitalist realism bs, neoliberal shock therapy that meant over 80% of people lost the jobs they had in the DDR oh and also 35 years of letting nazis move into the post-annexation political vacuum, organizing there and securing their footholds with daily violence on the streets against anybody nazis don’t approve of.
They told me to touch grass,but when I’m outside there are reactionaries on every fucking corner
I had a trad wife, wasn’t easy. She actually picked up the Islamaphobia a few months after we ended. Anyway moral of the story she wasn’t the bueatiful socialist I had originally met and went full Christofascist.
Cishet equal partnerships are rare from what I’ve seen, dudes are really out there expecting their wives to clock a full day and still do domestic labor
Women hold up 90% of the sky it seems
My idea of trad wife might be different, vintage clothes, going to opera and jazz night and Christianity but as far as high archy goes we met in the middle also she was socialist when we first started dating which was an obvious green flag.
at least they realize that all the economic problems come from companies quote "want too many profits ’
