>>As usual it's a bit more tricky and I feel I can not express my point very well in english. It's strange even in german.
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>I fully concur on the weirdness
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>>As far as I see the people are just sick of germany as it is. The press dose not pick that point but concentrates on the comparable few right wingers and radicals. In that sense nobody is lying :)
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>>Those demonstrations are more or less nation wide, but Dresden hits the peek by a factor of least 100. For me those are not all inhabitants of that town.... Strange concentration of busses and the like.
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>As there are headcounts offering numbers deemed stable enough for statistic reasoning, why were not at least simple demographic descriptions tried? Asking for Zip code of home adress and perhaps last vote in election for Bundestag would not cost too much, given that everybody does their own statistics on election time and this phenomenon is really heavy in the press: why not try to find at least partially data above the anecdotal level ?
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>As I am certain less then 10% disabled their cell phones on purpose when participating, only some organizations have a clear picture of the normal location of those showing up.
That's the whole point of PEGIDA and the media. We get only a narrow view by our media. You will only get the basket cases shown and so on.
I'm on that for ages. In the early 90s I was comparing BFBS vs german news. The germans where talking about IRA bombing, BFBS about IRA and Roaylist bombing. The later where never mentioned in german news. I've stoped the notice them since and focus more on foreign news.
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