August 24, 2010 12:52 PM

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Thilo Sarrazin once suggested, while still Berlin's state finance minister, that welfare recipients turn down the heating and put on a warm jumper to save money. Then he made suggestions for a Hartz IV menu that would cost just €3.98 per day. Now that he's scored a top job at the Bundesbank (who on earth hired him), he's been lashing out at immigrants and Muslims in his spare time.

He's now published a "book" - Deutschland schafft sich ab (Germany is getting rid of itself) - in which he complains, with very patchy stats, that immigrants from Muslim countries cost too much and don't give enough back to Germany or other Western European nations. They are also, "multiplying" (like viruses, rabbits, vermin), while only stupid, uneducated Germans have children. One half-baked idea after the other, one cliche after the other, one thinly veiled racist notion after the next.

Amazingly, the normally sane Literaturfestival - apparently eager for a bit of press - will provide Sarrazin, and his book, with a platform on September 25.

Anyhow, Thilo, what are you doing in the SPD?

Step up the plate, put on your brown shirt, dude.

Finally, some all-time great Sarrazin quotes:

"Nowhere else are there as many people shuffling through the streets in tracksuits as Berlin." (2002)

"Being underweight is the least of the problems of Hartz IV [welfare recipients]." (2008)

"A large number of Arabs and Turks have no productive function, other than selling fruit and vegetables." (2009)

Tag Topics: German politics, Seymour Gris

by Seymour Gris

August 24, 2010 12:52 PM

Latest Comments

spectre

i think all this hoo-ha points to another question..
is nazi-esque sentiment slowly creeping back into germany?
btw
most tracksuit pant wearing folk in berlin are vain hipster white girls

in any case, track pants can be cute

Posted by Quoc November 17, 2010 09:51:07
Sarrazin

We should all simply boycott, boycott, boycott german cars, products at the verymminimum. This cretin or vermin SARRAZIN is a hard-caore nazi, no different in belief, temperament, character (lack of) and humanity than Josef Goebells, or other propaganda whores. If you are a non German, (the only country in the world where such rasist terms are used by the way is in Nazi Deutschland) then prepare yourself for war, civil war or aggressive behaviour. Arm yourslef with weapons, train militarily and challenge any aggressive Nazi who dares to insult your great non Nazi character. Half of all germans are rasist anyway. I´m under siege here in Nurnberg area by nazis. I´ve been attaqcked multiple times and they are not included in any official government statistic becuase thjis and previous governments is waging a war of ommission, war of eugenics, war of propaganda, war of verbal insult, waqr of rasism and other against non-aryians. Rise up citizens who are non nazi and beat back the vermin.

Posted by Angry and proud September 14, 2010 17:50:59
of course

they would have sold Mein Kampf...they're in it for the MONEY nothing else. Just BOYCOTT HUGENDUBEL, people. Simple.

Posted by seymour August 31, 2010 09:51:11
tracky bottoms

I also think he was a Class A cunt, actually make that he is a Class A cunt, but Berliners do wear a lot of tracksuits, man. I wrote to Hugeldubel about him, I said that it was a Beleidigung for all Neuköllners of foreign origin that they put his book up in one of those altar things, this is what they said:

Sehr geehrte Frau Nandi-Pietschmann,

vielen Dank für Ihre E-Mail.
Ihre Bedenken bezüglich des Buches von Herrn Sarrazin, kann ich sehr gut nachvollziehen.
Dieser Titel hat jedoch eine sehr große Medienpräsenz und wird in Auszügen gedruckt und diskutiert. Deswegen bin ich auch der Ansicht, dass sich
jeder eine Meinung über den kompletten Inhalt bilden sollte und nicht nur die Auszüge zu sehen bekommt.
Da der Titel stark nachgefragt wird, präsentieren wir ihn auf unserer Internetseite und auch in unseren Läden, geben aber keine wertende
Meinung dazu ab und bewerben ihn nicht aktiv.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Heike Hantel
H. Hugendubel GmbH & Co. KG
Service Center

They probably would've sold Mein Kampf in their shops too mind! I was gonna write back to her and say that but I didn't, in the end...what's the point, what's the POINT? God, I get depressed about this shit. God, I wish he'd die.

Posted by jacinta August 30, 2010 20:57:50