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Russian propaganda has been targeting Ukrainians even more aggressively lately. It’s horrifyingly noticeable when I talked to other Germans lately. People who normally have a working head on their shoulders are blurting the most blatant racist rants now. It depressingly mirrors what Germans were saying about Jews in the 1930s and I’m only barely exaggerating. Envy towards the bottom is one of our society’s worst diseases and it’s spreading rapidly.
My mum too, very xenophobic, spouting half-digested arguments about them using up all our money. And she came to this country as an adult, and heavily relied on support the first few years (well, relied or not, it was given). Once they give into Facebook etc. their brains become malleable like rotten fruit.
It's scary how quickly they radicalize now, isn't it? My "favorite" (meaning most baffling) take is that Ukrainians supposedly get doctors appointments so fast, implying that they "steal" appointments from German patients. As you might have guessed: Said doctor is an Ukrainian refugee themself most of the time. I know one myself who practices nearby with a local doctor. These geniuses don't realize their cries for deportation will mean even longer waiting lists for many Germans. Congratulations, leopards ate your faces.
Yep. My current dentist is Ukrainian. And she's good.
Anyhow, I wouldn't call my mum radicalized*, just a general mood of complaining about everything. She spends too much time looking at this stuff and then thinks that's just how people talk nowadays. And she has no concept of fact-checking or even an inkling of which news to trust and which not. If it comes from a "friend" it's by default more trustworthy than me saying "well maybe that statistic doesn't even exist, or if, it says something very different". That said if we sat together I might be able to talk some sense into her, but we live far apart.
* though I'm thinking with discomfort who she might have voted for
Well that one was invented by the likely new Chancellor Friedrich Merz claiming it first about African and Arab refugees and migrants.
It was only a matter of time until the sentiment would be expanded towards Ukrainians. This goes to show that Merz & co. maybe care about Ukraine as a state buffering between Russia and NATO, but they don't care about Ukrainians as people, like they don't really care about any humans that aren't "useful" to them.
“Envy toward the bottom” so well said. People are so disappointing.
I didn't read the op. But Ukrainian refugees have a special state in Germany. This is probably about lifting that. While this certainly is worse for them, I doubt that it is really bad. If they for from the war they can still come to Germany.