wibblur.social, calckey instance catering to minorities and run by black community organizer aveta, has become one the biggest calckey instances within no time
recently, germany and the indian state kerala signed a treaty concerning the import of workforce for the german healthcare sector: https://feddit.de/post/1240283
the comments below often are condescending and absolutely unaware that keralites have had an important role in west german healthcare for more than six decades > i think those comments reflect the unawareness among many germans about the important role keralites have had in german healthcare for many decades, to say the least > read those comments using machine translation to understand what i am writing about
here are some insights:
the indian community in germany is not very big: they are no more than two or maybe three lakhs (one lakh = 100.000) > among them, keralites form a significant proportion of pio's (people of indian origin) > the presence of keralites in germany dates back to the early 1960s when the archdiocese of cologne has started importing healthcare workers from kerala
many keralites still work in healthcare today > in some german small towns, your family doctor would be a muslim from kerala, and all, i repeat: all nurses in your german local nursing home would be from kerala, with some assistants coming from sri lanka - many of them being tamils from jaffna
as of today, the indian community in germany is rather small, but they are visible in daily life > moreover, the south asian community in germany as a whole and the indian community in particular are known for their progressive tendencies > so far, the hindutva-led indian government has failed to make inroads into the indian community in germany - this is a rather unique situation: compare this to the usa or the uk!
the amount of cooperation within the south asian community in germany is tremendous: it is quite common that e.g. pio's from karnataka would help their fellows from afghanistan when it comes to grassroots aid in afghanistan, or that punjabis would help tamils doing something similar in sri lanka > i could go on and on!
moreover, it can happen that you may visit a village somewhere in the german outback, and the mayor would be a pio > also the contributions of south asians to german culture are numerous, including art exhibitions and publishing of indian literature translated into german etc
it saddens me that so many people in germany are ignorant of all this! all they still seem to have in mind is a racist campaign dating back some two decades ago when a german conservative politician demanded "kinder statt inder", i.e. "children instead of indians" > see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_R%C3%BCttgers#Controversy
your internet connection is really really bad, and you still want to see what's happening on the fedi, but your browser simply won't load mastodon, misskey, friendica, pleroma etc?
you may try kbin instead > this fedi platform is ultra lightweight #kbin#fediverse
a truck driver was ready to kill some climate activists in stralsund, germany > this incident is by far the most violent in a recent row of atrocities against climate activists in germany
stralsund is not only one of germany's most beautiful towns, but it is also home to a very strong fascist local scene, so no surprise ...
and even in countries where c140 is in force, it's not all good > e.g. in germany, two states keep violating the ratified convention: bavaria (germany's economic powerhouse) and saxony prefer to suppress workers' rights > both german states share a history of far-right leaning governments, accompanied by far-right terrorism #labor#ilo
block this acc > hait appropriated hannah arendt's name > hait has always been on the far-right > hait is one of the worst german think tanks #fightFascism
Recently we have been dealing with a lot of spam from the kbin.social communities. There is a bug in kbin where moderation tasks are not federated to other instances. That means even if a moderator over at kbin removes a post, it will still be visible on Lemmy instances and it’s up to the instance admins to clean it up.
This means that those spam-accounts will stil be able to post in our communities too, but at least it makes the task of moderation already a little bit lighter on our team. But it was either this or defederation. The moderation tools on kbin are in an even worse state then Lemmy’s.
to many, bds (boycott, divestment and sanctions) seems rather obscure > nevertheless, there is one particular field of studies where bds made a drastic impact - and bds did more damage than good
it was about twenty years ago that mona baker, a renowned scholar in translation studies, severed all ties with scholars from israel > this event proved nothing short of a catastrophe, putting the blame for wrongdoings of the israeli government on progressive scholars like gideon toury and itamar even-zohar
mona baker has kept some record of the early correspondence between her and gideon toury, and it's accessible here > it is worth reading, as this correspondence happened at a time when the global south for the very first time took the lead within an academic discipline - translation studies
for quite some time, germany's public health sector has been under pressure due to a shrinking workforce > that is why germany seeks for health professionals willing to move to germany in far away places such as philippines, vietnam, india etc > but beware of false promises of safety ...
two days ago, german authorities decided to deport banu büyükavci, a physician of turkish nationality > reason: she is a communist > on a side note: büyükavci currently lives and works in nuremberg, the second-largest city of the german state of bavaria > bavaria is known for its right-leaning politics > currently, a person with neonazi past is serving as bavaria's deputy minister president, plus state elections are ahead ...
In the view of author Deborah Feldman, politicians from all parties are instrumentalizing anti-Semitism to incite hatred against Muslims. She fears for social cohesion. She also criticizes Germany's "blind loyalty" to Israel. #germany#islamophobia
indian intellectual ranjit hoskoté stepped down¹ as member of the selection committee of germany's most important exhibition of contemporary art documenta amidst a distinctly german discussion, publicly labeling ranjit hoskoté as antisemitic
by and large german media has opted to neglect coverage of cooperation between far-right hindutva politicians from india and far-right zionist politicians from israel > both of them share a peculiar anti-muslim stance which is met with approval from many sections of german society
keeping this in mind, the public rejection of ranjit hoskoté does not come as a surprise >
hoskoté's being vocal about far-right cooperations on international level is not welcome in germany where the political leadership maintains close ties with the far-right governments of both india and israel