| Pop Will Eat Itself – Ich Bin Ein Auslander Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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The song is about solidarity with minorities targeted by right wing racists and fascists in the UK. At the time, and sadly still now, there was a number of racist groups violently targeting minorities. The core of the song is encouraging people to speak out against it, but without violent conflict. It also forwards the idea that if you tolerate violence against minorities, then next it will be the misfits and weirdos (outsiders) like us. When the Nazis targeted Jews, they also went after homosexuals, free thinkers and well basically anybody that didn't fit their idea of how the world should be. In that regards its sentiment is similar to the Manic Street Preachers "If you tolerate this, then your children will be next". Although that song was about the Spanish Civil War, fighting the fascist General Franco. |
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