alt Hacker NewsI wonder how these will fare in Saxony. I presume it's an industry which will attract and depend on highly qualified foreign workers. Dresden itself may be fine, but parts of Saxony are sadly no-go areas for anyone remotely non-white, or even moderately liberal. It's a really brain-damaged region outside of Dresden and Leipzig, and even those cities are not exactly welcoming examples of diversity. Given a historic chance of prosperity, I think odds are eastern Germany will shoot itself in the foot epically with this.
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> I wonder how these will fare in Saxony. I presume it's an industry which will attract and depend on highly qualified foreign workers.
Saxony has had a decently-sized or large (by German standards) microelectronics sector for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Saxony
As you'd probably guess, they're mostly situated around Leipzig and Dresden.
> no-go areas for anyone remotely non-white
Yeah sorry but this is bullshit (but unfortunately matching exactly the clichee of the arrogant and ignorant "Wessi"). There's plenty of "non-white" (as you call them) refugees living a normal life in Saxony, also in the villages in bumfuck-nowhere (not to downplay the far-right and neonazi problem though, but East Germany isn't that far behind West Germany, take a slice from West Germany with the same demographic composition as East Germany and you'll get the same percentage of AfD voters). Getting industry back into East Germany is exactly the right thing to do, more and better local jobs means less 'brain drain' into West Germany and with this, less AfD support.
> but parts of Saxony are sadly no-go areas for anyone remotely non-white
Which is of course exaggerated as usually and if you are referring to the AFD, my take is that the focus on the eastern part is just cope by the western part, they are rising the same in the western part, the eastern is just ahead of the curve. This is very much a problem of the complete country. If the administration(s) manage to bring back the economy, than the AFD will also go away, if they don't then this will be the far bigger issue for any industry rather than the public perception of the workers.
> I think odds are eastern Germany will shoot itself in the foot epically with this.
How are they shooting themself in the foot, by investing into semiconductors? Even if it eventually fails, how would this be worse, then not having done anything? Also the odds of this failing (like the one in Magdeburg) are rather small. This is the news that the construction is finished, and it is a new module in an already existing factory of an already existing company in exactly this place. I don't believe the company is going to axe it, AFTER the factory is built and the costs were spent. This doesn't make any sense.