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Germans hate Turks, and with a name like that, this guy is ethnically Turkish.
A while back there were a bunch of murders in Germany and the newspaper mockingly called it 'the Doner murders' and assumed entirely that it was Turkish people committing the murders; turns out it was neonazis, and the German public was genuinely shocked even though.....you know....Nazis didn't originate from a country in the global South to put it lightly. The police harassed the families of the victims even though apparently they had a strong idea of who actually committed the murders.
Add on top of this guy being Turkish that he's also anti-zionist in a country that's tied it's image with having overcome Nazism and antisemitism by embracing Israel as the greatest symbol of that, and.....yeah, they're not going to feel guilty destroying this man's life in a way that's considered socially acceptable.
Euros hold grudges for everything for such a long time. I've heard Romanians are still mad Hungarians invaded europe like over 1000 years ago.
The fact they hate Turks because they won so many wars for centuries (plus the racism + Islamaphobia also makes) and they're still malding about it , is so crazy to me.
No that's not it. They hate Turks, because they abused them for cheap labor (and still do) and racialized them to organize the exploitation materially, to justify it ideologically and to compartmentalize it psychologically. Like any racialized group, they are seen as less than human.
With the economic restoration after the war, the demand for labor was high, driving up wages and cutting into profits. Starting 1961, German capital brought Turkish people over to do all the dirty, badly paid work. Six years earlier, they had started with Italians, other nationalities should follow until today. They denied them the rights white Germans would get and kept the threat of deportation dangling over their head to keep them in line. They made a law to prevent "communist infiltration" to ensure any of the "guest workers" who showed any sign of organization or class consciousness, could be immediately deported. It worked, unemployment rose, increasing the reserve army of labor, driving down wages and stabilizing profits.
It's a classic contradiction: capitalism needs cheap, overexploited, racialized labor, so they need to create racist ideology that justifies the cruelty and demarcates who to overexploit, but that ideology threatens the system of "guest workers" for racist reasons. The temporary "solution", as for most contradictions, is to move the contradiction elsewhere for others to suffer the consequences. In this case by de-industrializing and moving production offshore to labor markets where wages are kept low by force. Until that stops being enough (to offset the tendency of profits to fall) and the colonial methods turn inwards: fascism. That's what's happening now.
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