Integration on the phone: Ali Can tried with a Hotline, “concerned citizens,” the fear of refugees. Criticism is not allowed, baiting. The trigger was the visit of a Pegida Demonstration.
“Come up to us in the AfD. A rate black flagship migrants like you, we can always use.” Mr. Wengert, these words, Ali has impressed the Can in a sustainable way. More than one and a half hours it took for the phone call with the former CDU member of the time, listened to the voice on the links between refugees and Gefährdern and the abolition of weapons laws and his own double standards pointed out. Like a verbal fight was the in-between, to the end of it for him, but nevertheless, the state of knowledge: “Not all of the AfD-voters are racists, and not all of them are malicious people, the Hiking, the policy under”, Can in the DW-Interview.
The Migrant with the chocolate bunnies
Ali Can: “Ensure want to be taken seriously”
The idea of a Hotline for “concerned citizens”, had the Student who came as a child of Turkish parents in Germany, after a trip to the East of the Federal Republic of Germany. With a chocolate Bunny in Hand, he mingled in March 2016 in Dresden during a Pegida Demonstration among the people, and gave the – as he calls it – “migrants of their confidence”. Can discussed with those who deport minutes previously in the chorus of “deport” had roared, and tried to lead constructive conversations. Most of the time he reaped at the end of a Smile. What is decisive is the call of a woman who called him a few weeks after his Tour was. She had told him previously of their Fears of foreign men, since the Cologne’s new year’s eve night. Now she wanted to tell him of a positive encounter with a refugee. The Hotline was born.
Just talk
In the beginning, there were two hours per week, to which people are completely free with Can speak. Then the Whole thing exploded. People called in outside of his “office hours”, sent countless E-Mails. “It took me also with the time,” says Can. 6. In September, he has, therefore, support the course of study is for the time being put on ice. 40 to 50 percent of the callers were open-minded people. He didn’t want to actually never reach, because he took you for a liberal, the 23-Year-old. However, there seems to be not to mention.
“And what is it with these Salafis?” Ali Can had to make the phone calls, many questions.
Some asked him for his opinion, others described their concerns. A recently called and said that it could not be, that experiments in Germany, to secular, and now, veiled women in state buildings and walked around. Others wanted to just simply get rid of something. “You can think of it this way: You are sitting on a bench. Then someone comes to you and says, what moves him, because he has just read the newspaper, and then stands up again and goes.”
Concerned people in a revolving door
“I have nothing against asylum seekers, but I have a Problem with Islam, you know?” An almost proto-typical set for shock man, the Ali Can. In his book, “a Hotline for concerned citizens,” he carried extracts from several conversations together. He wants, he says, is that other learned how to lead with to the right a tendency for people to “respectful discussions”, people who were in a revolving door. “The turning to the right. But can only be conservative or liberal-conservative, when you talk to them,” Can in an interview with DW. You Stemple directly as racists and right, you would at the end of those who instrumentalized, their concerns and doubts politically.
Laughter is a good access
In his lectures and Workshops Ali Can analyzed together with the participants of the German culture.
Can want shades of gray in the black-and-bring-and-white image. Do-gooders versus the racists, welcome to hot against refugee opponents: So easy, the company would not split up. “Even people who criticize immigration, even as people are doing, the compassion and the have something against the Drowning of the people in the Mediterranean.” Listen without instruction and behind the slogans look – that is, what Can with its Hotline, his book and his Workshops and lectures. He stops at schools and universities, and is trying to raise the awareness of the “Locals” to dissuade you judge of a Lump sum. He does that with role-playing games and a bit of theatre, “because Laughter is a good access”. Part of the program, a Ali Can specially designed integration test. Those who score well integrated with the predicate “pattern”, has done it: “you may now carry officially sandals and white socks.”