Der Deutscher 🇪🇺🇺🇦

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Wenn schon eigentlich kritische Analysen das Grundproblem des deutschen Bildungssystems so klar leugnen, sehen wir, wie weit der Weg noch ist.

»Chancengerechtigkeit ist eigentlich eines der zentralen Versprechen des deutschen Bildungssystems.«

Schon dieser 1. Satz des Artikels bringt mich zur Weißglut. Wann hat das deutsche Bildungssystem das JE versprochen!?

Das Gymnasium hat EINEN Zweck: Herkunfts-Unterschiede zu zementieren! ↘️

WTF? We were talking about “atrocities committed by German military in that theater were so much worse than what they did in the West” (a direct quote from a comment above.)

Because any ship that sees them will 😬 and turn around.

Seems pretty obvious, tbh.

in occupied Western countries?

Yes, they committed even more crimes, with more victims, in the East. But this really was more of a quantitative difference, not “obeying laws of war” in the West vs. “not” in the East.

> some kind of international law was followed on the Western Front during WW2 while it was ignored on the Eastern Front.

I’m sorry, but the way you phrased this, it’s just wrong. Do I really need to post a list of war crimes and crimes against humanity Germans committed on the Western Front and ↘️

> the ones who fought the Russians

… were generally the ones who’d first fought on the western and other fronts. German soldiers were transferred back and forth all the time.

It was never the case that the most barbaric ones were sent to the Soviet Union and the (allegedly) less brutal one weren’t

Ja, McAllister! Ich wusste doch, dass ich irgendwen vergessen hatte!

Wer war bisher eigentlich Staats- oder Regierungschef eines deutschen (Glied-)Staates mit dem meisten Migrationshintergrund? (Den Österreicher zählen wir mal nicht.)

Lothar de Maizière (der letzte DDR-Ministerpräsident; wegen seiner hugenottischen Vorfahren)?

#Özdemir 💚 #representation

»Aber die Schulform ist doch egal. Du kannst überall Abi machen und dann studieren!« 😵‍💫

(Ich würde echt mal gern wissen, wie viele in 🇩🇪 aufgewachsene Ärztys nicht auf dem Gymnasium waren.)

It’s the same as talking to Germans who aren’t Nazis about WWII. Unless you have a guilty conscience, neither topic is “sensitive.”

> We deliberately didn't bring up politics with a US couple we met in Norway last summer.

Why not, though? Let’s make all those fuckers uncomfortable!

Klar, nicht allein und vor allem nicht in dem Schulsystem. (Das Hauptübel ist, dass SuS überhaupt auf verschiedene Schulformen aufgeteilt werden.)

Aber kann unsere Antwort an die, die den »goldenen« Weg nicht schaffen, ein Schulterzucken sein? »Selber schuld, hättste dich mehr anstrengen müssen…«

Und sofort im Anschluss hat Frau F es aber geschafft, den Schüler trotzdem dazu zu motivieren, im Rest des Schuljahres nicht aufzugeben …

Oder? 🤨

stories of utter disasters.

discussions. That needs very dedicated teachers not every school has.

Poorly prepared visits can all too easily devolve into extremely counterproductive narratives, which less-than-excellent teachers aren’t prepared to counter. If you talk to Germans who have been on such trips, you’ll eventually ↘️

And while Germany certainly must continue to educate its youth about the horrors Nazi Germany inflicted on humankind, I’m not sure camp memorial visits SHOULD be mandatory.

They’re only useful when visits have been meticulously prepared and are being supported by very rigorous lessons and ↘️

I don’t think visiting a concentration camp memorial is or ever was mandatory for school students throughout Germany. Some states have it as part of their curriculum (many around 9th grade), but not all do.

In pre-1990 East Germany, it was not mandatory. ↘️

And the unequal application of federal law by state and local authorities is a disaster for immigration and naturalization.

For all the 🇺🇸 government’s flaws: federal functions are only performed by the federal government, so at least people know who to praise (or blame.)

One thing that really sucks about the German system is how it commingles local, state, and federal functions. If your local or state government sucks, people are likely to blame the entire government — not a good thing for people’s trust in democracy and federalism! ↘️

U.S. 🇺🇸 passports aren’t the cheapest ($165 USD for the first one as an adult, $130 to renew), but online renewal (a 2024 Biden administration program!) is incredibly fast (as little as a week from submission to holding it in your hand) and convenient.

Schon wieder!? Das hat er doch schon letztes Jahr irgendwann gemacht, irgendne Geburtsurkunde es rheinländischen Vorfahren?

🍊💩: “When I hear that sound [of construction noise], it means money.”

So who exactly is profiting from this? 🤔

Die Schwarz-braun-Borris-Koalition ist stabil. 😭

Unfortunately, the premise that American voters wouldn’t vote for Trump or his party because a local candidate was too extreme has no basis in reality.

moderate-vs-extremist distinction gets totally lost. And in a contest between ridiculous and cringe, the former is more interesting.

of the movement going up against an establishment perceived as elitist and hypocritical.

In a contest between a cringe moderate and a ridiculous extremist, the ridiculous extremist will win these days, because the demise of traditional media and advance of social media removes all nuance, so the ↘️

a positive, uplifting vision that sounds authentic and doesn’t copy the right. In other words, the complete opposite of what Starmer’s been doing.

To circle back to the U.S., yes, voters have voted for Congressional candidates even crazier than Trump, as long as they perceived them to be part ↘️

hoped that Trump’s policies would hurt them less than those of an “establishment” that they felt had betrayed them.

That’s the driving force behind all populist and extreme right movements, many of which succeed despite having no charismatic leaders.

The only way to counter this is to put forth ↘️