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Thread triggered by srf.ch/sendungen/inte… - In 2000 I started my "Zivildienst" in Altenessen-Nord, a reasonably un-posh neighborhood in northern Essen. I had an interesting run-in after I intervened with some bigger kids beating up / stealing from a smaller kid; including a ...
... lot of things that sound like precursors to the problems/tactics described in the radio feature (the rapid assembly of a large group of individuals; threat of violence; subordination of individual interest to clan interest). It is an interesting & sobering thought that the...
... kids I dealt with then (whose age ranged from 13 to 24) have, by now, spent another 19 years on those tactics & that way of life. It is really strange how familiar a lot of the stuff in the radio feature sounds, just incrementally escalated over two decades - and a good ...
... reminder how not addressing problems early is costly. I also had no idea about some of the societal background (wtf were 1980s politicians thinking making school not mandatory for war refugees from Lebanon??). Anyhow, great radio feature.
