The festival “contre le racisme Ulm/Neu-Ulm” will take place for the 5th time this year. Even if events are currently only possible to a limited extent, the importance of educating oneself about inhumane ways of thinking and acting is particularly evident during the corona pandemic.

People are currently being increasingly defamed, threatened and attacked as alleged carriers of the corona virus, just because of their appearance. At the same time, people in many places regularly gather for demonstrations against the restriction of fundamental rights, supposedly out of fear of losing democratic rights. Apart from people who are seriously concerned about our democracy, right-wing populists spread their demagogic views and inhuman attitudes at these demonstrations. This way, extremist and racist views are intended to increasingly find their way into social discourse in order to shift the boundaries of what can be said.
Hardly any (media) attention is paid to the situation of refugees on the Turkish-Greek border, in camps on the Greek islands or in reception centres in Germany. However, it is precisely there that many people are forced to live in very confined spaces - without the possibility of keeping their distance, let alone with the means of a functioning health care system.