Was soll dieses „migrantische Milieu“ eigentlich sein, wenn es nicht darum geht, Leute, die deutsche Staatsbürger sind, irgendwie doch als Ausländer zu bezeichnen? Mehr als die Hälfte der Einwohner Frankfurts hat einen Migrationshintergrund.

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It's because the actual content of the specific warning/worry/freakout does not matter. The only thing that matters is the lines it allows to draw, the insider/outsider distinctions it is allows you to make -- and to legitimate the routine calls for violence and discipline against the outsider (5/5)

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AND that there are people in your editorial office who are not named Jochen, and sometimes have the temerity to write articles criticizing a Jochen. As I wrote back then, there's a reason why these backlash waves have been "deeply serious in self-conception, absolutely farcical in execution." (4/5)

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It means politicians whose grandparents immigrated to Germany, AND the fact that your kid's school doesn't look like your school growing up. It means weird conspiracy theories about "islamogauchisme" (3/5)

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... and everything to do with an excuse to crack down on what they're now calling the "migrantisches Milieu". What does that word mean? Well, it means newly arrived immigrants AND your neighbor who doesn't look like you. (2/5)

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