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Dhyan Nada :vegananarchism:

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I was on mastodon.social and felt censored - I couldn't prove it but I had the impression that toots for solidarity with and criticising weren't distributed in the way I was used to.

I moved to kolektiva.social and aside from enjoying not to be limited to 500 characters per toot it actually feels more relaxed and less restrictive there.

The thing about German laws is that you are allowed in many cases to speak out more than the repressive atmosphere in society makes you believe. If you have a reputation and career to lose it's recommendable to shut up about all things in , but otherwise you may follow your heart a rather long way without being legally investigated or indicted.

The intimidation strategy of the government can be studied exemparily with the resolution
"Never again now: to shelter, sustain and strengthen Jewish Life in Germany"
accepted with a great majority in parlament two weeks ago.

It identifies critique of Israel generally with without implementing direct consequences for the perpetrator because it's not legally binding. At the same time the resolution recommends to take repressive measures against any kind of antisemitism which of course is and has always been endemic in about 15 percent of German population.

The trick now is that they give several practical examples for antisemitism in the resolution which mainly are centered around Israel and muslims - refugees and/or German citizens - who are accused to have imported antisemitism into the land of holocaust via opposing Israel's warfare as apartheid and occupation policy.

Especially for people and organizations in sciences, culture and arts who are often subsidized by the state it's dangerous to protest against Germany unconditionally supporting Israel regardless how bad the mistreatment of Palestinans gets

That again is a win-win especially for the far-right who for one can lash out at nonwhite migrants who they want to push out of the country and to the other jump on top of the band wagon for Israel thus serving the authoritarily enacted Staatsräson (reason of state) to always take sides for Israel in an exemplary manner.

So German laws aren't coming down so hard on dissidents as the ruling consensus management does - Marcuse called this informal but efficient practice "repressive tolerance".

jacobin.de/artikel/antisemitis

JACOBIN Magazin · Mit der Antisemitismus-Resolution schafft sich der Staat eine SchattenverfassungDie vom Bundestag verabschiedete Antisemitismus-Resolution ist nicht geeignet, um jüdisches Leben zu schützen. Sie ist vor allem dazu geeignet, um den deutschen Staat autoritärer und repressiver zu machen.
Nov 21, 2024, 09:13 PM·Public·Web
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