Germany’s Colonial Adventures

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Clarissa

January 8, 2016

Poor Germans, they never had any real colonies to speak of and no “brown people” to play out the white man’s burden upon. For over a century they have felt sulky that there were no “barbarians” for them to civilize.

And now they have finally figured out that it isn’t necessary to go anywhere and conquer anybody to play the role of benign, paternalistic colonizers. They can use globalization to have colonial subjects delivered right to their doors.

The next stage of the colonial game is, “Look how much we are doing for these animals, and they are still not appreciative.” After that it’s on to the stage of, “We were forced to show them their place since they don’t feel any gratitude for our civilizing kindness.”

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14 responses to “Germany’s Colonial Adventures”

J. Otto Pohl

January 8, 2016

Germany had some colonies in Africa and the Pacific prior to losing them in World War One. Eastern Ghana was part of German Togoland from 1884 to 1914.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_German_colonies

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 8, 2016
  
  Compared to what the British, Spanish and French empires had, this is nothing.
  
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el

January 8, 2016

\ For over a century they have felt sulky that there were no “barbarians” for them to civilize.

What about Germany being the leader of EU with a mission to civilize some backward countries into correct economic, immigration and other policies? 🙂

And what you say is surely untrue for most Germans. Ask a German on the street whether he wants more refugees. 🙂 Merkel and other leaders do many things against the will of their voters, as far as I understood.

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 8, 2016
  “What about Germany being the leader of EU with a mission to civilize some backward countries into correct economic, immigration and other policies? ”
  
  One would hope that flogging the Greeks would be sufficient but, apparently, it’s not quite as satisfying.
  
  “And what you say is surely untrue for most Germans.”
  
  I don’t know. Quebec has had the same problems for decades (if not to the extent as what happened in Cologne), yet the Quebecois are pissing themselves with delight for more of the same. Solving men’s problems at the expense of women never gets old. The argument of male hardship needing immediate remedy at any cost to women always wins.
  
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  1. el
    
    January 8, 2016
    
    \ Solving men’s problems at the expense of women never gets old. The argument of male hardship needing immediate remedy at any cost to women always wins.
    
    How is this about “male hardship” specifically? Do you think the public would be less welcoming to mainly female refugees with children?
    
    Also, aren’t women constituting the majority of pro-immigrant people and volunteers? It would be interesting to check if there is a difference in degree of support for migrants in male vs female Americans and Europeans.
    
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    1. Clarissa
      
      January 8, 2016
      
      “How is this about “male hardship” specifically? ”
      
      80% of the current refugees are young men.
      
      “Do you think the public would be less welcoming to mainly female refugees with children?”
      
      There have been many opportunities to welcome female refugees with children from many different places of the world. There are women who are specifically fleeing horrible gender-based violence and can’t get admitted as refugees anywhere. The efforts to admit sexual and gender violence against women as a basis for refugee status have been going on for decades with very little results. But the second a million of young, vigorous men claim hardship, they are let in immediately and surrounded with loving and tender care.
      
      “Also, aren’t women constituting the majority of pro-immigrant people and volunteers? ”
      
      Yes, women believe their role in life is to serve male needs. There’s nothing very new about that. Some of these poor fools are eagerly downplaying the violence done to women because it’s what they need to do to keep servicing the menz.
      
      “It would be interesting to check if there is a difference in degree of support for migrants in male vs female Americans and Europeans.”
      
      Patriarchal conditioning doesn’t recognize borders.
      
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Dreidel

January 8, 2016

Which Germans are you so angry at? You sound like you’re condemning the whole German people for — being mean to refugees? For not wanting to throw away German taxpayer money again and again at dishonest debtor countries like Greece?

Or are you specifically angry at Merkel?

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 8, 2016
  
  I was always very anti-Greece, as we all know. But if one us desperate to throw money on something, I believe it’s better for that something to be Greece and not 1,200,000 of people nobody knows how to integrate.
  
  And Merkel only does what her voters want her to.
  
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  1. Dreidel
    
    January 8, 2016
    
    I agree that NO country is legally obligated to take in ANY immigrant (or refugee or whatever term is used); the entry of any foreigner into any sovereign nation is solely at that’s nation’s discretion. However, if EU countries have agreed under EU rules to accept certain quotas of refugees, and to process and register those refugees in a specific manner, then those countries should follow the rules if they want to remain within the EU.
    
    As for the Greeks, if they repeatedly refuse to accept fiscal rules that are necessary to improve their economy, giving them another bailout will accomplish nothing.
    
    If the EU can’t function as a viable political union because some of its members can’t/won’t manage their economies successfully, then the EU should either take those countries out of the Euro zone, or give up the grand experiment and disband.
    
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    1. Clarissa
      
      January 8, 2016
      
      To my knowledge, nobody agreed to have an open border policy for anybody who manages to present themselves as a “Syrian refugee.” That was Germany’s unilateral decision, and now everybody in the EU will have to deal with it.
      
      But whatever, my post is not about the EU. If the EU never existed, Germany would still be playing out this vulgar show.
      
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cliff arroyo

January 8, 2016

The follies of colonialism are mostly the same the follies of modern Germany that is true and again they are both based on the Big Lie of our age: that human beings are fungible at both the individual and group levels. That is, people’s values (and the prevailing majority values in cultural groups) can be changed at government whim. It’s an idea that has failed as spectacularly as any in human history, again and again and again again.

Addressing that horrible misconception will cause an immense amount of collective trauma in Europe but failing to address it will cause more (hint: Koln was just the beginning).

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 8, 2016
  
  When I heard people seriously argue that Syrian refugees were going to work as doctors, teachers and engineers in Germany, I realized it was useless to discuss anything. These are delusional individuals who are living in a crazy dream world.
  
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el

January 9, 2016

\ After that it’s on to the stage of, “We were forced to show them their place since they don’t feel any gratitude for our civilizing kindness.”

I began thinking why and how Jews have never being seen as “brown people” to civilize despite not being viewed as truly belonging to Europian countries of their residence. Or could one see forced conversions to Christianity and in later times anger “we gave them emancipation, but they still don’t assimilate” in this way?

Is there a way to win at all for the “Other” in this game? If one is unsuccessful, the “civilizers” respond with one kind of anger. But when Jews were successful, they were viewed as threatening the majority and accused of running the countries in question. The only solutions seem to be either complete assimilation (marrying Germans and giving birth to German children) or going back to one’s nation state.

On another topic, saw this now:

Philadelphia ISIS shooting: Man wearing white robe and mask shoots cop sitting in car in attempted street execution
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Edward Archer, 30, is said to have fired at least 13 shots, including from close-range through the window of the police car. He later told detectives: “I follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic state. That is why I did what I did.”
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When contacted by Philly.com, Archer’s mother confirmed her son was a devout Muslim “for a long time” and had recently been “hearing voices”.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/philadelphia-isis-shooting-man-wearing-7142960

The name is English, but on his photo he looks like an Arab. As for him being insane, he may be, but I am unready to believe it yet. In Israel every family of every terrorist tries to present the act as not one of terror (unless they are the kind that go to gloat about their shahid publicly). His mother may try to ease his punishment by claiming insanity.

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1. Clarissa
  
  January 9, 2016
  
  “The name is English, but on his photo he looks like an Arab.”
  
  ???? The man is African-American. Let’s not go nuts here, shall we? He is obviously an unstable, mentally ill individual.
  
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