Diversity is often sold to Western public as an economic necessity, but many on the left also believe that diversity is inherently good in and of itself. In fact, it is a near religious maxim that does not necessarily need to be explained, but more a matter of unshakeable faith. Native populations such as the French, English, Germans, and basically any European native group are becoming minorities in their own lands, but for the sake of diversity, the left believes this must continue.
This also appears to be the message of the German Labor Minister Bärbel Bas of the far-left Social Democrats (SPD), who made a number of controversial remarks at the Action Day Cohesion in Diversity.
“And we want to fight for color and also stand against this so-called ‘uniform grey,’ or I even call it ‘brown’ (Nazi). Even if some people may even long for it. That’s why it’s especially important to me as Minister of Labour to address this here. We need the people who come to us, even as high-skilled labor, yes. But we also need them to ensure diversity in our society,” she said, adding: “That’s just as important. And that’s why, because high-skilled workers are missing in many industries, it’s certainly an economic consideration.”
🇩🇪🔴Germany needs even more diversity, says Labor Minister Bärbel Bas, who then refers to Germany before mass immigration as "uniform gray," and even "brown," in a nod to the Nazi era.
"And we want to fight for color and also stand against this so-called 'uniform grey,' or I… pic.twitter.com/l4mrJfDngO
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) May 27, 2026Bas said that just reducing diversity to economics was wrong, “and that’s why it’s important to embrace cultural enrichment, not just talk about it in terms of economics. The two go hand in hand.”
Notably, at least from what can be seen in the video of her speech, the audience appears to be almost entirely White, who are all listening to a speech delivered by a White woman.
🇩🇪🔴Germans marched in Dresden to honor victims of migrant violence, with nearly everyone on the list below having died at the hands of a foreign national.
Known as the "Mourning Vigil Germany," marchers held photos of their deceased loved ones.
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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) April 29, 2026Focus magazine chief online correspondent Ulrich Reitz said that Bas is essentially insulting ethnic Germans and wildly distorting the past.
“Bas calls us ‘gray’ or, in other words, boring, or even ‘brown.’ What she means by that should be clear. That’s already inappropriate and somehow insulting, isn’t it? She designs a social picture of German society before immigration that she frames as ‘uniform gray.'”
“And this uniform gray is meant to be defamatory for her, of course,” he continues. “That’s why she pushes the idea of uniform brown. Uniform brown, of course, refers to the twelve National Socialist years, 1933 to 1945. And uniform gray is what came after that. And then immigration begins, and it then leads to the positive concept of Mrs. Bas, namely diversity. That’s the picture she’s creating here.”
“It’s one-sided, ideological, unhistorical, unstoppable. Many people will come to their senses and contribute to the justly observable decline of the SPD. What kind of picture of Germany is Bas drawing? The problem is that many immigrants don’t really want to integrate into society, maybe even live in parallel societies.”
He goes on to say that immigration has always existed in Germany, and there has been mixing, however, Reitz points out that diversity in and of itself is not necessarily a good thing.
“And that just shows what Mrs. Bas is doing here. It is an ideological exaggeration that she is doing here. Diversity is not, as Mrs. Bas says, per se positive. Diversity is only positive if it goes hand in hand with immigration and integration. Diversity that leads to disintegration is not a positive value, but a negative value,” he stated.
Is diversity good in and of itself?
Was the so-called “uniform gray” of the old Germany really inherently bad, as Bas claims? With increasing diversity, Germany should be safer, happier, and more economically well-off than it ever was just by merit of the fact that the country is diverse.
The reality is quite different.
Germany is facing down a catastrophic school system where more and more children cannot speak basic German and teachers and German students face bullying and threats.
🇩🇪🔴"How it feels to become a minority in one’s own country."
In Hamburg, the "migrant share in some schools is so high that German children are increasingly being bullied because they do not participate in Ramadan or because girls wear short skirts."
German schoolchildren are… pic.twitter.com/UE4mlCtloU
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) May 18, 2026Taxpayer money is being thrown at foreigners at an astounding rate, totaling €40 billion to €50 billion a year.
There is record violent and sexual assault crime rates and growing parallel societies.
Women also feel less safe. It may have to do with rampant gang rapes and sexual assaults — not to mention daily street harassment.
🇩🇪🚨 The New Germany: An African migrant is caught on video sexually harassing a German woman with baby stroller.
She tries to tell him she has a husband, but he doesn't stop. pic.twitter.com/AfIuH1tXHw
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) February 4, 2025Germans say they feel less safe than ever, and despite Bas’ claims that diversity is inherently good, the German people appear to have not received that memo. Poll after poll shows that a majority of Germans want fewer migrants and even an immigration moratorium.
🇩🇪‼️ "Germany is no longer a safe country… The migration crisis is first and foremost a crime crisis."
German police union (DPoIG) chairman Manuel Ostermann makes a major statement following the Solingen terror attack by a Syrian Islamist. pic.twitter.com/ZolmrLnMHa
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) August 28, 2024The boring “uniform gray” of the old Germany may have not featured organized gang warfare in the capital city, which saw 555 shots fired just in 2025 and where nearly half of all crime suspects are foreigners.
Even the fundamental argument that the “pro-business” parties like the Christian Democrats (CDU) rely on, which is that migration is inherently good as long as it is legal migration, is flawed on many levels. For one, it is sharply contradicted by the Asian countries of Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea — the same countries which are increasingly dominating German and European industry, with China serving as the most prominent example.
Given that ethnic Germans still make up the majority of the population, lived in German lands for thousands of years, and were fundamental in building a nation known for its art, architecture, literature, and technology, Bas’ claims about the “old” Germany are not only hateful but also wildly distorted and bereft of facts, logic or historical accuracy.
However, this kind of rhetoric is increasingly common from the left across Europe. Notably, the far-left leader of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, has made equally hateful statements, which attempt to pigeonhole the “old” France as backwards and only worthy of being erased.
He has also called French white people “ugly.”
“In our country, one person in four has a foreign grandparent. 40 percent of the population speaks at least two languages. We are destined to be a Creole nation and so much the better! May the young generation be the great replacement for the old generation,” said Mélenchon.
He also went on to make a number of further statements, saying the new immigrants need “to heal France from the wounds of racism.” He also had made inflammatory statements, calling for “torch-bearers” to bring about change, which has revolutionary undertones, although he stopped short of any calls for direct violence.
🇫🇷🚨 French far-left leader calls for the Great Replacement
Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “France is destined to be a Creole (mixed Black and French) nation and so much the better! Let the young generation do the replacement of the old… Each generation is a new people!" pic.twitter.com/uLgOMlMXs5
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) February 7, 2025The left has swerved from telling the public that the Great Replacement is pure nonsense and a conspiracy theory, to stating that more diversity is the end goal and inherently good in and of itself.
As the latest images from France show, a country arguably even more diverse than Germany, the future of “more diversity” is not necessarily a good one. PSG’s victory in the Champions League should have been a moment of joy for France, but instead it turned into a chaotic riot, where women were groped, police were attacked, and Paris was left looking like a war zone.
The right and even the center must continue to use facts, logic, and images to combat the vision of those like Bas and Mélenchon, who are increasingly detached from reality.
