Create meetup in Berlinchevron_right
Select a place on the map to change the location.
I want to meet
Verified required?
want to meet at fmd_good Riverwalk Center
want to meet at fmd_good Brew Lab
explore Berlin Guides
Berlin Hidden Gems (2026)
kirstin
Berlin on a Budget: Tips 2026
annette
Where to Stay in Berlin (2026)
frieda
3 Days in Berlin: Itinerary 2026
rabeakurth
Things to Do in Berlin (2026)
viktoria
Best Food in Berlin (2026)
bar_chart Trends in Berlin
Is Berlin becoming more racist or just this reddit forum?
Just a few hours ago, someone talked abo… Lately, I've seen many threads or comments in which people post seemingly nonchalant comments loaded with racial bias that receive massive amounts of upvotes.
Just a few hours ago, someone talked about the reduction of voting age as something positive and the most upvoted comment mentions "broccoli haircuts", obviously referring to curly hair. A few days ago, the same pattern could be seen when talking about anything related to Neukölln or Wedding or NYE.
I thankfully don't see this kind of things in my offline life, so my question is: is Berlin becoming more racist or just this reddit forum?
the real answer is that online spaces just attract different people. go to the späti on sonnenallee and you'll hear five languages in ten minutes, nobody cares what your hair looks like. reddit tends to draw a certain crowd that might not even live here, or if they do they're bitter about something specific.
berlin's problems are real, housing costs, bureaucracy, the s-bahn constantly on fire. but the casual racism you see on here is a reddit thing, not a berlin thing. the city's too big and too mixed for that to be the dominant vibe offline.
if you want to actually gauge the mood, go sit at a park in kreuzberg on a sunny saturday. you'll see what i mean.
It's mostly this subreddit. Berlin has a long history of migration and working class struggle that online spaces just don't capture. I've lived in Wedding for six years and my street is full of families from Turkey, Syria, and Vietnam all hanging out together at the playground. The keyboard warriors aren't the ones buying vegetables at the weekly market on Leopoldplatz.
I think Reddit just amplifies the worst takes because people upvote edgy stuff for laughs, not because they actually believe it. Offline, Berlin's still pretty much the same messy, diverse city it's always been, at least from what I see day to day.
load 2 more replies
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.