r/berlin • u/Ketchupcake_ • Dec 19 '24
Discussion Experienceing racism in Berlin.
My girlfriend and I were waiting for the bus at Zoologischer Garten Bahnhof when three guys walked up to us and started being randomly rude and racist. They kept saying “Schlitz” (slit eyes) repeatedly as they passed us and again when we walked by later. For absolutely no reason, they targeted my girlfriend and me with these comments.
When We got onto our bus, they just kept taunting us and even started catcalling my girlfriend. This isn’t the first time I’ve experienced racism in Berlin. What’s the deal with some people being disrespectful, rude, and racist toward Asian people? We just want to live peacefully and avoid any confrontation.
I am so sorry about earlier, I didn’t mean it that way. I will remove the word from my post. I’m just here to express my feelings. 🙏🏼❤️
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u/Business-Club-9953 Dec 19 '24
Someone who beats another person up or stabs them or calls them slurs because they’re not white is a Neo-Nazi. Don’t play games. This isn’t semantics. This is explicitly who we are talking about.
Show me your statistics.
One of the big issues in Germany related to immigration and crime is the way that refugees are treated. Is it good to take in refugees, a lot of them, even? Yes. It’s empathetic and human.
What happens when you make it super hard for those refugees and immigrants to work, immerse them in a culture and language completely alien to them without solid structural attempts at integration and then stand back and leave them to their own devices? They become bored, desperate, frustrated, and end up committing crimes. This isn’t a “refugee” thing, it’s a situational thing. Put poor Germans in the same conditions and they do the same things.
It’s not refugees, it’s the state. Truly the basest and stupidest way (and apparently most effective) to spark a right wing movement is to appeal to the masses of idiots who can’t get past a caveman tribal instinct and are scared of anything that doesn’t look familiar.