Nazi ideology from Germany’s Bundesbank

[Hannah Bell]

Rarely since the fall of the Nazi regime have racist theses been propounded so openly in Germany as in the newly published book by Bundesbank (Germany’s central bank) executive board member Thilo Sarrazin. Titled Germany is Effacing Itself, the book is a tirade of abuse against Muslim immigrants, spiced with social Darwinist prejudices and racist theories that recall the eugenics of the Third Reich.

Sarrazin, who is longtime member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), claims that “the cultural and civil equilibrium” of Europe is being threatened by “the prodigious fertility of Muslim immigrants.” He deplores the circumstance that “we, as a people and society, are too slow-acting and indolent even to ensure a birth rate capable of maintaining constancy and guaranteeing our future, and instead delegate this task to immigrants.”

As a result, he warns, “autochthonous Germans” will in a short time become the minority in a country where “Turkish and Arabic are spoken widely, women wear headscarves, and the daily schedule is determined by the call of muezzins.”

Sarrazin ascribes a generally lower intelligence to Muslims than to other groups in the population and declares that this is genetically conditioned. He concludes: “When people with a high degree of education continue to have a below-average fertility rate, compared to an above-average fertility rate of people with a low degree of education, this will over time be detrimental to the intellectual potential of the population.”

Sarrazin is not just a crazy eccentric. His racist theses have been eagerly taken up and propagated by the media. Der Spiegel and Bild have published in advance the most provocative excerpts from his new book. Welt am Sonntag made two pages available to him in a detailed interview. Die Welt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung–the organ of German big business—have defended his theses.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/pers-s03.shtml


When this crap is going on both in europe & the us, what are we getting ready for boys & girls....?


WAR.

The traditional, time-tested end of capitalist crises.

[Hav]

1. Well...

he is more than likely to lose his post at the Bundesbank which has already made the demand to get him sacked and he will probably be expelled from his political party as well. I don't think that he, with these views, represents either the Bundesbank nor the party.
I believe that the article was a little bit too one-sided. It was a publicity stunt and he earned a shit-storm. The often heard opinion was that there is a need to debate this issue but that the way it was put forward by him was completely out of line.
So, at least for now, this ultra right-wing rhetoric isn't seen as widely acceptable (yet).

[Swamp Rat]

2. Glenn Beck just had an orgasm.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. 1) Merkel disavowed his thesis, and 2) he got sacked.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1582086.php/Merkel-Sarrazin-has-offended-whole-segments-of-our-society

[Hannah Bell]

4. and the media accounts? it's going to continue.

[Selatius]

5. Our government is further along the corruption spectrum then a lot of European countries.

We're more likely to switch over to a corporate dictatorship than a country like France or Sweden or Switzerland. We pretty much have legalized bribery for our system of elections.

Try shoving our election system or the rules that force out a two-party oligarchy down their throats. They'll fight you like the Underground against Nazi occupation.

[MadHound]

6. This sort of attitude is becoming common throughout Europe

In fact it is one of the bigger threats to the continued unity of the EU.

[Fuzz]

7. I've been hearing this 'birth rate' argument a lot. White christians aren't having

enough babies and it's the end of the world.