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Bag On Berlin Metro: ‘This Text Has No Other Purpose Than To Terrify Those Who’re Afraid Of The Arabic Language’
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Just recently, journalist Nader Al-Sarras was riding the metro in Berlin, when he spotted this bag designed by Rock Paper Scissors. It reads: “This text has no other purpose than to terrify those who are afraid of the Arabic language”. Genius, huh? Nader thought so too, so he took a picture and posted it to Facebook. It has gone viral since, with over 35k likes and 15k shares.
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Consindering what gernany has been though recently, I find this inappropriated. But thats just me.
Considering what Germany did in the past, I find German inappropriate anywhere - but that's just me being facetious because what you said is incredibly ignorant.
What Germany did in the past is actually irrelevant to what is happening now. Nobody alive today was alive then in the 1930's or had any influence over events then. Do the German people have to feel ashamed forever and as such accommodate people in their society that actually hate them just because their recent ancestors did terrible things? It's time to draw a line over the sins of the past and move on, there is nothing more ridiculous than people being born today being made to be ashamed of their history, when they had nothing whatsoever to do with it. The past is the past and should be relegated to the history books, not politicking or used as a weapon by SJW's to club innocent people into following their agendas. Furthermore I would say that the willingness to transfer grudges down the generations is what is making the world a very bad place especially in the middle east. Lets make it stop and have no more apologising for things that happened before you were born.
Well said :)
Alexander Schikora, you're 100 o/o right. If the invaders of the Americas had the same weapons as the Germans in War II, there probably be no more america natives alive today!
Doh!
Germany did nothing, that another country did not do as well. It was just at the time when industrialization was possible... Imagine the pilgrims would have had mustard gas when conquering the states, or the Spaniards and Portuguese when going for the south americans... And I bet you did not even know that millions of indians die of starvation because of the greedy companies from the UK, that was in the early 1900 btw. But yeah, continue to act and pretend...
Why they would need to learn foreign language in their own country.. I think it should work rather in opposite direction.
I think it should be reciprocate. Anyway, I was not suggesting to change cultures and adapt entirely to the refugees. Neither was I suggesting an "Arabification" of Germaany. I was simply suggesting using education as means of fighting back and knowing whom to fight amd whom you're fighting. Just this.
Glad there is still people with common sense on this planet :) To be completely honest I wouldn't learn Arabic (partly because it's not the most easy language for an European), but I wouldn't fear something just because I don't understand it (in this case because it's in arabic)
It's not about "learning," it is about realizing that a foreign language isn't an instant sign of fear. Should Japanese symbols and German words or words with Umlauts be a sign of something to be fearful of? After all, they both have a past of mass murder.
Some guy using the fear of terrorist/islamist to sell bags... yes but no.
The whole point of the bag is that being afraid of language is just dumb. Being afraid of people because of their religion is even dumber. Rather be afraid of the crazy people - they are the terrorists and and their language and/or belief is actually of no consequence, just something they hide behind to validate their own pathetic view of what they think the world should be like.
Consindering what gernany has been though recently, I find this inappropriated. But thats just me.
Considering what Germany did in the past, I find German inappropriate anywhere - but that's just me being facetious because what you said is incredibly ignorant.
What Germany did in the past is actually irrelevant to what is happening now. Nobody alive today was alive then in the 1930's or had any influence over events then. Do the German people have to feel ashamed forever and as such accommodate people in their society that actually hate them just because their recent ancestors did terrible things? It's time to draw a line over the sins of the past and move on, there is nothing more ridiculous than people being born today being made to be ashamed of their history, when they had nothing whatsoever to do with it. The past is the past and should be relegated to the history books, not politicking or used as a weapon by SJW's to club innocent people into following their agendas. Furthermore I would say that the willingness to transfer grudges down the generations is what is making the world a very bad place especially in the middle east. Lets make it stop and have no more apologising for things that happened before you were born.
Well said :)
Alexander Schikora, you're 100 o/o right. If the invaders of the Americas had the same weapons as the Germans in War II, there probably be no more america natives alive today!
Doh!
Germany did nothing, that another country did not do as well. It was just at the time when industrialization was possible... Imagine the pilgrims would have had mustard gas when conquering the states, or the Spaniards and Portuguese when going for the south americans... And I bet you did not even know that millions of indians die of starvation because of the greedy companies from the UK, that was in the early 1900 btw. But yeah, continue to act and pretend...
Why they would need to learn foreign language in their own country.. I think it should work rather in opposite direction.
I think it should be reciprocate. Anyway, I was not suggesting to change cultures and adapt entirely to the refugees. Neither was I suggesting an "Arabification" of Germaany. I was simply suggesting using education as means of fighting back and knowing whom to fight amd whom you're fighting. Just this.
Glad there is still people with common sense on this planet :) To be completely honest I wouldn't learn Arabic (partly because it's not the most easy language for an European), but I wouldn't fear something just because I don't understand it (in this case because it's in arabic)
It's not about "learning," it is about realizing that a foreign language isn't an instant sign of fear. Should Japanese symbols and German words or words with Umlauts be a sign of something to be fearful of? After all, they both have a past of mass murder.
Some guy using the fear of terrorist/islamist to sell bags... yes but no.
The whole point of the bag is that being afraid of language is just dumb. Being afraid of people because of their religion is even dumber. Rather be afraid of the crazy people - they are the terrorists and and their language and/or belief is actually of no consequence, just something they hide behind to validate their own pathetic view of what they think the world should be like.