about. crime in the streets how much are we talking about far right protest and who s doing the talking where and for you valerie as a member of the online media can you just take us through the role that online media are playing in this deepening polarization and in what appears to be a certain discrepancy in terms of reporting on crime perpetrated by migrants because clearly many people who are going to the streets are people who feel that their streets are unsafe where is that coming from i feel like that that s one of the this is that really was underestimated by many people especially in berlin essay in the government. where the internet has such a high potential for just getting these people together out on the streets and protesting in such a short amount of time however if you re talking about online media you have to
just go back to work if they re not thanks and for it where before they were and i think that s a big part of what the f.d.a. is making making possible for them you know right matthew some people would say mainstream politicians are also lowering the threshold to the phobic talk and the person i mean in particular would be the head of the chancellor sister party the very conservative party he said just this week apparently in an internal party meeting that he thinks the main problem in germany today is migration horsy hoffa has he in fact helped to normalize the kind of xenophobia we re now seeing on the streets well i think we d have to know exactly what he meant by that i think he might have meant that this migration crisis which and the handling of the crisis and the political fallout from it is the mother of all crises politically in germany now because it has opened the door in many people s view to this search by the a.f.p. which you know is you know wasn t even on the map really