I’m really trying very hard not to complain, after all I was born in Germany, the country responsible for the worst genocide in human history. I feel like I don’t have the right to complain - so let me at least EXplain:

I’m 49 years old. I absolutely hate our Nazis (which sadly do exist). Always did, always will.

In the early 1990s, I participated in a student exchange to Paris - and my host family was Jewish. They were amazing people, but I was 15 and didn’t know much about our history back then. To this day, I remember the face of the dad who greeted me, showed me my room and told me they were Jewish. Who knows how many of his relatives had been killed by Germans? And I was this spoiled brat who knew fuck all and was just interested in playing video games. Makes me cringe to this day.

Last year I went to the Netherlands on vacation. Sat on a park bench in Zaanse Schans, looking at windmills. Old guy asked me if he could sit beside me. We start talking. Turns out his Jewish dad fled from the Nazis to Mexico. Bam - one moment you mind your own business, the next you’re in a delicate, very serious conversation. I clumsily tried telling him all I felt in that moment, the infinite sadness in my heart about Nazi crimes and I couldn’t find the right words.

These things happen. It’s not easy, but I try to do my part.

I despise the Nazis for impacting so many lives. I know my problems are minute compared to the impact Nazi crimes had on their victims. But what I’m also saying is that it really hurts to read comments like “Germany loves its nazis” on here when I hate them so much.

You love your generalizing stereotypes, just like the Nazis did.

Do you think it’s hip to be square?

If you’re in a situation like anon, get out of there as soon as you can. Always remember these moments. When your dad gets old and needs your help, tell him “only f*****s need their sons to do stuff for them”.

You’re absolutely right, and I noticed it as well, but I already had some upvotes. Also, I’m a lazy fuck and didn’t want to do another one.

People like to use it for AI, data science, machine learning (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, …) and even scientific stuff (SciPy, SymPy, AstroPy). So it seems to be the right tool for some jobs, which is all that matters. Your job may be something entirely different and that’s absolutely fine.

(And no, I don’t use Python either.)

OP fails to recognize the immense, irrational fear of German politicians to be viewed as anti-Israel and therefore antisemitic.

I like the French, but sometimes they can be a little French.