I guess sixty-five years is long enough for Germans to get over the guilt and start talking trash about religious minorities again. That seems about right. You’d have to be over eighty years old to have had any shot in actually participating, even indirectly, in the Holocaust. It’s safe to go back in the water.
Mrs Merkel told a gathering of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday that at “the beginning of the 60s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country… We kidded ourselves a while, we said: ‘They won’t stay, sometime they will be gone’, but this isn’t reality.
“And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other… has failed, utterly failed.”
No doubt she is responding to public opinion. Most of those foreign workers were Turks and, therefore, Muslims. Their cheap labor was welcome but their customs and beliefs were not enjoyable, apparently. Economic times get tough and the same old shit starts happening. It’s happening here, too. People need to stay vigilant.
