Jon Pretty

I'm pretty sure that a demonstration of a thousand right-wing people doesn't define a nation of eighty million, any more than the perpetrators of the crime which triggered it offer any representation of immigrants. Don't project the few onto the majority!

It may not be representative of 80 million, but it is representative of Germany as a whole. Saxony in particular has a long history of downplaying right-wing extremism with the home secretary and police doing nothing.

We're looking at a pogrom-like situation in Chemnitz. This is a bad time for sealioning.

I'm saying, don't get depressed that 1% of 1% of the population are showing themselves to be awful human beings. An overreaction is also bad: it makes those few look powerful in having provoked it, and they don't deserve that. Any response has to be proportionate.

There are already very real consequences and harm being done to everyone not looking sufficiently German. Staying silent is not a measured response.