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Linksextrem? Wo sind denn hier Linksextreme bzw.wo werden denn hier kommunistische Positionen vertreten? Man ist nicht automatisch links (oder sogar linksextrem), wenn man Rechtsextremisten kritisiert! Das ist Unsinn!

@@susannebuchholz72 rechtsextrem? nazi? wo ist die AFD rechtsEXTREM oder eine nazi-partei? wir reden hier von der nationalSOZIALISTISCHEN partei deutschlands der dreißiger und vierziger jahre. Siehst du wir können dieses dümmliche spiel gern spielen aber ohne doppelstandarts und in JEDE richtung! die AFD lehnt JEDE form von sozialismus ab egal ob rot, grün oder braun und ECHTE beispiele für antisemitismus gibt es weit mehr in linken parteien und dem Öffentlich Rechtlichen Rundfunk der letzen jahre als in einer AFD. evtl begreifst du ja jetzt die lächerlich/dümmliche propaganda steuerfinanzierter kasper wie der typ hier in diesem video ... das wahlprogramm der AFD ließt sich 1:1 wie das der CDU als dort noch der gesunde menschneverstand regierte!

@@peloquin5652 „Von der „NPD“unterscheiden wir uns nicht so sehr durch Inhalte,sondern durch unser bürgerliches Unterstützer-Umfeld!“(Dubravko Mandic)

@@peloquin5652Jeder, der das demokratische System abschaffen möchte,ist ein Extremist,egal ob von links,von rechts oder religiöser Extremismus,wie es sich Islamisten wünschen!

@@peloquin5652Ich habe nicht gesagt,daß die „AfD“eine Neonazi-Partei ist! Das gibt auch andere Formen des Rechtsextremismus.Alle Nazis sind Rechtsextremisten,aber nicht alle Rechtsextremisten sind Nazis!

Die historischen Nationalsozialisten waren keine Linken! Ich habe in den beginnenden 80er Jahren mit vielen Zeitzeugen aus der NS-Zeit gesprochen (und das über 15 Jahre lang). Die haben sich selbst nie als Linke gesehen, das war für die eine Beleidigung! Das „sozialistisch“ und „Arbeiterpartei“im Namen macht daraus noch keine linke Bewegung bzw.Partei! Die „DDR“hatte auch „demokratische Republik“im Namen,war aber eine Diktatur!

min.27: technik sei kein herrschaftsmittel mehr... der war gut .

Ah, that's not clear in the lecture itself, but he does explicitly say it (while acknowledging its outdatedness) in the Q&A. I think he explains it well though, around 1:11:50. How would you answer what he says there?

Also, your comment seems to me to miss the whole point about such racial identities being constructed. Most people who you would presumably think it reasonable to call black don't actually have anything like black skin, just other shades of brown, or the same shades combined with other features - in fact, many of them probably have lighter skin than many people from the far south of India (Tamil Nadu, etc.).

@@benjamingeorgecoles8060 (1) Through genetics, it is possibly to objectively tell whether someone is Caucasian, SSA, South Asian, Amerindian or East Asian. (Or whichever mixture of the above). (2) Having grown up surrounded by both South Asian and Black people, it is a myth that most Indians are as dark or even darker than Black Africans - maybe 10% are.

What do you mean? The language of the talk will certainly have been agreed with organisers in advance (if that was even necessary), and the talk will have been described in promotional material as in English... They won't have just spontaneously and to the disappointment of many eager audience members gone with English. Also, it's not at all abnormal for cultural and academic events in Germany to be in English these days. They want to communicate with the wider world, and not many foreign speakers are gonna be able to speak much German; most will speak English. For better or for worse, that’s the fact of the matter. Right?

@@benjamingeorgecoles8060 It is still estimated that around half of Germans cannot speak English, according to the last EU Barometer Survey. Anyway, this attempt to make the English language universal is not only just a glorified form of Anglo-American imperialism; it is disrespectful and insulting to other cultures and identities. (OK, I'll grant you that it is one thing to acknowledge that hardly any foreigner is gonna know Czech or Norwegian. But German is a pretty major language itself, with well over 100 million speakers, and at least in Europe if not so much elsewhere it is far-from-unusual to study it at school.)

@@najbritcol Hey. Thanks for the reply. Here are the questions I have in response to what you've said: 1) If the language of this event was envisaged from the start by the German hosts, was the speakers' use of English still a case of this 'glorified form of Anglo-American imperialism'? (That would be a bit ironic, wouldn't it, or even hypocritical? Given the anti-imperial flavour of what they're saying? But what, should they have turned down the invite then?) 2) If cosmopolitan or business-minded Germans embrace the English language as a means of speaking to and learning from and working with people from all round the world, are they guilty of Anglo-American imperialism? 3) Sure, there are plenty of German speakers in the world, but far fewer than, say, Chinese, Hindi or Arabic speakers, or - even just focusing on European languages - French, Spanish, Portuguese or Russian speakers... (In British schools, rates of German teaching fall well below French and Spanish teaching.) For most people, learning multiple foreign languages is a huge ask. Do you really think it's reasonable, generally, to expect foreign academics who visit Germany to be able speak German? If German academic and cultural institutions had that expectation, they'd just be massively limiting their ability to have such visiting academics, right? Which, presumably, is part of why they don't? 4) Granted, many Germans don't speak English, but also many (perhaps most) Germans couldn't and/or wouldn't follow an academic lecture on the history of concepts of white identity (focused very much on non-German contexts). Don't you think there's likely to be not complete... but at least a fairly thorough overlap between the Germans who'd be able and inclined to engage with such a lecture and those who speak English? 5) With many of Germany's academic - and, to a lesser extent, business and cultural - institutions now operating bilingually or even mostly in English (for, as those institutions see it, primarily their own benefit), there are many students and young workers in Germany (from all round the world, not just the Anglosphere) who don't really speak German... What about them? Often such events as this are in English precisely to try and accommodate these people - as well as people from just over the borders in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Poland, Czechia, etc. and a global audience online who don't speak German. Don't you welcome this drive to include people, people who can benefit from and enrich the discussion? 6) For extensive, free-ranging and easy discussion across countries and cultures (which is a wonderful thing, isn't it?), we simply need a lingua franca, don't we? 7) Do you see a language that's better placed to play that role than English? 8) I grant the history and even the current geopolitics of the English language's dominance have much darkness in them, and we shouldn't ignore that. Did you by any chance read Michele Gazzola's recent piece in the Guardian 'English still rules the world but that's not necessarily OK. Is it time to curb its power?' Towards the end of the article, he, acknowledging the value of having a lingua franca, suggests a bunch of compensatory measures that native-English-speaking countries and institutions could take to bolster linguistic justice, without necessarily downplaying the English language as a lingua franca. I wonder how satisfied you'd be by those kinds of measures?

@@benjamingeorgecoles8060 (1) Languages are not just mere 'tools of communication'. They are intrinsic to people's histories and identities, both as individuals but most of all as groups. Look at how protective Quebec and Puerto Rico are of French and Spanish respectively - being islands of those languages in seas of English. Attempts to totally supplant them with English, especially in the education system, usually result in a massive outcry and are rightly abandoned. (2) Related to the above: I live in Wales, and while I do not speak Welsh myself, nonetheless I very much support all initiatives, whether public or private, to put it on an equal footing with English within the territory called Cymru. Not only to recognise it as the original language of Cymru, but most of all in recognition of the fact that, for a long time, it was actively suppressed in the legal and educational systems, and a redress is long overdue. (3) Although I don't entirely buy the academic notion of 'White privilege', I certainly think there is at least a grain of truth to it, and there are parallels to the global dominance of English too. Basically, just as there are some Nigerians, Kenyans, Indians, Chinese and others who like to bleach their skin, have operations to make their eyes and/or nose look more European and prefer to marry White people as an end in itself, so there are some native-speakers of German (and other languages) who prefer to speak English over their own language, and usually wholly embrace much if not all of Anglo-American culture along with it, in order to appear precisely more 'cosmopolitan' and 'prestigious'. While those SJW activists who claim that you don't have to be White to be a White supremacist might sound looney, they do have a point, and a similar situation applies here too. (4) There are actually more native-speakers of Mandarin and Spanish than English, yet too many people still disregard the first two with almost the same contempt as they would (much more understandably) the likes of Czech and Norwegian. (5) You talk about how Germans want to be open to the outside world, yet ironically the popularity of anti-immigration parties there (and in other parts of Europe too) may suggest otherwise. (6) As you acknowledge yourself, English didn't become the dominant global language either through pure accident or (much more absurdly still) the British and the Americans being nice to everyone. Quite the opposite in fact. We are talking about MASSIVE asymmetries of power here. (7) Related to the last sentence, insofar as there has to be a lingua franca at all, which is a dubious notion itself (I shall explain why later), it should be a language with no ethnic or national associations like Esperanto, thus everyone can start off on the same footing. The notion that English (or, for that matter, any other ethnonational language) can be genuinely 'neutral' as a form of communication between very different peoples is very questionable. (8) Re the notion of a lingua franca: whatever happened to the notion of "when in Rome, do as the Romans do"? As I said to you previously, while it would ultimately be unreasonable to expect many people to learn Czech or Norwegian when they visit or even move to those nations (at least initially anyway), the same cannot be said for such a major language as German, which is the native language of Europe's leading economic power and second-most populous nation. I believe in the fundamental right to be oneself and the right to be different, whether individually or in this case collectively, which neither yourself nor especially Malik do. Panglossian Universalism is just ethnocentrism in a shiny disguise. (9) Furthermore, there are already substantial regional blocs for other languages besides English in the world: Russian for the ex-USSR, Spanish for much of the Americas, French for much of Africa, Arabic for most of the Middle East etc. While all of them are to varying degrees tainted by their own colonial histories, it would be hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance on steroids to reject them all in favour of English in the name of 'anti-colonialism', as some Francophone African countries are now doing and some Catalan and Basque nationalists advocate viz-a-viz Spanish. (10) I did read that Guardian article, and its proposals for 'lingustic justice' struck me as interesting but ultimately too esoteric and bizarre. Instead, there should be a greater investment and emphasis in teaching foreign languages - especially those which coexist alongside English as the UN's official languages (French, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic and Russian).