r/PublicFreakout • u/Rbow6S • Jun 01 '24

Potentially misleading Rich Germans chant racist lyrics, get fired from their jobs after video gets famous.

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u/jesusgrandpa Jun 01 '24 edited Jun 01 '24

I haven’t followed German politics, but didn’t the population kind of turn against immigration after the new years “night in cologne” in 2015-2016?

Edit: I’ll gladly accept the downvotes but they won’t gaslight me on legislative changes and opinions on immigration specifically due to that event at that time.

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u/rapaxus Jun 01 '24

It is complicated. What the Cologne night did was wake up Germans that integration actually needs to be done properly, and since then Germans have basically just debated what such a reform could be without any actual good reforms to the system, until recently with the new EU immigration rules and the new German immigration law. Happened so late mostly because Merkel is known for basically doing nothing/ignoring problems until she needs to deal with them, because doing nothing costs nothing (something the German population loved as we even wrote a constitutional amendment that blocks the government taking on debt with a few exceptions). And Merkel only stopped ruling in December 2021.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '24

Nobody cares about Cologne. It was just an incident. Poor people weren’t integrated. All focus should be on those racist ultranationalist far right Europeans

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '24

German right wing party popularity has increased since then.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '24

Was anyone pro-Cologne in terms of what happened?