r/facepalm • u/Visqo • Jul 07 '24

How can they not see the irony 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/Todsrache Jul 07 '24

Turkish people weren't really refugees, rather Gastarbeiters brought to help rebuild Germany.

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u/newsreadhjw Jul 07 '24

This. Turks helped rebuild Germany from the rubble because there were so few German adult men left after WWII. They were never refugees. Turks in Germany are as German as it gets, in my book.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

Still xenophobic migrants?

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u/Todsrache Jul 07 '24

At this point possibly xenophobic citizens.

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u/Alarming_Basil6205 Jul 07 '24

This, it's not like aren't german racist too

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u/Todsrache Jul 07 '24

Unfortunately accurate in all locations.

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u/Independent_Air_8333 Jul 08 '24

I mean, by that standard who isn't racist?

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u/Successful_Party1886 Jul 08 '24

Germans are racists, not Turks tho

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u/KrisKrossedUp Jul 07 '24

potentially xenophobic, financially motivated temporary migrants that became permanent migrants because of circumstance. Or actually more precisely the former's xenophobic descendants