whats your opinion , should the german party afd be banned ?

racism should be a crime even if it is only verbal.A party based on nothing but racism,race superiority should be banned and their leaders put to prison

Poison trees should be cut before they grow too big to handle

"racism should be a crime"

• In many countries it is,

"A party based on nothing but racism"

• Some of the parties do not openly advocate racism, but oppose immigration, oppose other religions,..

"their leaders put to prison"

• Does not help. Dad and daughter Le Pen were convicted. Dad Bolsonaro is in prison, but son Bolsonary goes on.

"Poison trees should be cut"

• Banning a party does not help.
  In your tree analogy, you should plant other trees that take its water and sunlight away.

Maybe yes, I don't know enough of them.

Last time in Europe they got power we ended under charred rubble everywhere, so it would be good to avoid that a second time.

@tpr said ^

"Poison trees should be cut"

• Banning a party does not help.
  In your tree analogy, you should plant other trees that take its water and sunlight away.

Banning dangerous parties is not supposed to kill their ideologies. It is to keep them from power and to stop them from their sinister plans

Even more troubling than racism is AfD’s election manifesto declaring this

inclusion experiment has failed and must be ended

and proposes a fundamental overhaul of the state’s education system. Among its plans is an expansion of special schools for children with disabilities, reversing Germany’s move towards educating children with and without disabilities together.

"It is to keep them from power and to stop them from their sinister plans"

• It does not work.
  Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison of which he served 264 days. During that time he wrote 'Mein Kampf'. He was released on 20 December 1924.
  Elections of 5 March 1933:
  43.9% National Socialist German Workers' Party
  18.3% Social Democratic Party of Germany
  12.1% Communist Party of Germany
  11.3% German Centre Party
  8% Kampffront Schwarz-Weiß-Rot
  2.7% Bavarian People's Party
  1% Christlich-Sozialer Volksdienst
  0.9% German Democratic Party
  0.4% German Farmers' Party
  0.2% Landsbund

@tpr said ^

"It is to keep them from power and to stop them from their sinister plans"

• It does not work.
  Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison of which he served 264 days. During that time he wrote 'Mein Kampf'. He was released on 20 December 1924.
  Elections of 5 March 1933:
  43.9% National Socialist German Workers' Party
  18.3% Social Democratic Party of Germany
  12.1% Communist Party of Germany
  11.3% Ger...

It can work some times. It's not like we just have to give up and wait till everything is rubble again because that's how it was the last time.

Like sports games do not end the same always. It's not like the result is 2-1 every time Spain plays against England. England does not need to give up and say it doesnøt work, last time they won 2-1 so we should just give up.

It's a new game and the result might be diffrrent.

@notsoneutral said ^

Even more troubling than racism is AfD’s election manifesto declaring this

inclusion experiment has failed and must be ended

and proposes a fundamental overhaul of the state’s education system. Among its plans is an expansion of special schools for children with disabilities, reversing Germany’s move towards educating children with and without disabilities together.

In come countrries it did fail though. They out kid with special problems in normal classes so the teacher doesn't have ressources to deal with them. It means the teacher spends like 90% of the time on the two special kids and there's very little time for the rest.

I don't see this as extreme. This including thing was tried just 10 years ago. It didn't work so well, thatøs ok. Not everything works, then you must try something different.