Someone told police the group hiking through Saxony in eastern Germany were “foreigners”.

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    But when she got back to her hostel, she found that police officers were waiting for them.

    Sounds like the police knew damn well it was just a karen complaint.

    The local backpackers’ hostel (which requires passports) is the right place to go chill if you want to catch up with some tourists.

    It’s probably not the right place to look for refugees sneaking over the border from Czechia.

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        @orcrist all I know is, in that part of the world, hostels normally require guests to show passports.

        Not sure how an exemption for Germans would work/be enforced, to be honest. Easier to just ask everyone.

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    20-some years ago I lived in a precarious situation in the back of an old Black Panther karate dojo (I know). Newly-minted urban white boy that I was, it was, culturally, quite a learning experience.

    I remember one of the guys (an outdoorsman from Louisiana) told me that he was always armed when he went hiking or camping. I didn’t get it at the time, but now I do. It wasn’t bears or mountain lions he was afraid of. It was this shit.

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      It was this shit.

      Police checking your papers for a couple minutes and leaving?

      Having checked the hiking group’s documents which proved the whole group was in Germany legally, police said they ended the operation.

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        No. The resolution of this specific circumstance in this specific location is not what I mean by this shit.

        By this shit I mean the general danger of being the wrong color in nature.

        In Europe, there’s nearly zero chance of running into serious, life-threatening, interpersonal trouble on a hike, no matter your color. That is less certain in parts of the United States.

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      No I’m sorry I don’t get it, what’s the plan here? Shoot at the cops? Threaten the racists with a gun? There must be a better answer to systemic racism than suicide by cop. A blank card with the words “not talking without lawyer present” would probably be a more sensible choice - against cops, not against mountain lions.

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    As Germany struggles with labour shortages in many sectors, local business leaders regularly express concern that the rise of the AfD may be harming eastern Germany’s economic prospects.

    You say “labour shortages” but I hear “salary shortages”. Oh well!

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    On Thursday, journalist Riham Alkousaa was on a hiking holiday, walking with a group through the mountainous wooded region of Saxon Switzerland, in the eastern German state of Saxony.

    But Ms Alkousaa was out walking with a registered German hiking club whose members are mostly Syrians living in Germany.

    Its spectacular mountainous terrain is portrayed in the works of 18th and 19th century Romantic painters, such as Caspar David Friedrich.

    In polls the AfD is either the most popular party, with around a third of the votes, or neck-and-neck with the incumbent conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

    As a result, chancellor Olaf Scholz’s left-leaning coalition has introduced spot checks on eastern borders with Poland and Czechia, where some migrants cross into Germany.

    But critics suspect that when they are faced with the rise of the AfD, the move is more about cosmetic political action in the run-up to key elections across eastern Germany next year.


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