With the current right-wing government and the general popularization of xenophobic discourses, the question of “what racism really is” is becoming increasingly vague. Racism is pushed and limited to mere extreme practices of violence, and all forms of spontaneous discrimination and exclusion are more and more justified by rational explanations of lack of competence, economic arguments, and other “pacificatory ” discourses. Of course, no one is a racist, despite the fact that many of us here and there for a moment play a judge about another on the basis of prejudices, stereotypes and generalizations, and on this basis restricts or unables access, uninvitedlly comments, “helps” and otherwise discriminates and treats the other unequally to oneself.
In addition to racism, which is embedded in the very system of state and power, which systematically keeps individuals in a subordinate position based on different place of birth or skin color, there are countless other problematic social practices on a daily basis that contribute to humiliation and excludon of defined others from our community.

In the context of the Antifa Festival, we want to reflect on our own practices of everyday racism together with those who experience these soft and less-soft acts of violence on a daily basis, as a society and as a community. At the round table, we will hear out the experiences of such words and acts of violence and then think about how we can act more inclusively as a community in the future and break with such practices.