Transcript/translation:
Her: I believe we mustn’t forget that, even though Russians look European, they are not Europeans, that in a cultural sense they have a different relationship to violence, a different relationship to death…
Interviewer: That they’re more capable/tolerant of enduring suffering or what do you mean?
Her: Well…there they don’t have this liberal, postmodern approach to life, life as a project that everyone shapes for themselves individually, but that life can just end rather quickly with death. I mean eg Russia has a relatively low life-expectancy, I believe 70 for men. That’s just…then one just deals differently with people dying there [Ukraine], right?
This was on Lanz, Germanys biggest political talk-show on German state television. This woman, Florence Gaub, is a political scientist and Deputy Director at the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) in Paris. This is the institutional racism guiding current European politics.
Literally just the old dehumanizing, orientalist, racist “Russians are just barely human violent hordes that don’t care about their own lives” bs used to justify WW2 and to legitimize the suffering and mass deaths of Russians in the 90s.
“What happened to the Nazis after WW2? Ah, um, well, um…”
Frankfurt Police Department 3 days ago: “Showing the flags of the USSR, DPR, LPR, autonomous Crimea justifies the initial suspicion of a criminal offense”, Saying “Donbass belongs to/is part of Russia justifies the initial suspicion of a criminal offense” because these have a “nationalistic character”.
We totally got rid of the Nazis though, no systemic problem with fascism, our cops are the good guys. Criminalizing the flag of our liberators from Nazism to support Nazis against the people that liberated us? Very normal and democratic behaviour.
And, of course, the “freedom and democracy” crowd’s gonna come in yelling about how censoring the press is actually defending press freedom!!
“Freedom of speech?? RED FASCIST!!”
Germany doesn’t even have freedom of speech, they have “freedom of opinion” as well as the freedom to silence opinions they don’t like.
