Posted on 02/03/2021 11:05:48 AM PST by Olog-hai
Germany’s Justice Ministry said Wednesday it has put forward a proposal to replace the term “race” in the country’s constitution after a row broke out over its links with Nazi ideology.
“The Justice Ministry sent a draft proposal … to affected associations on Tuesday with the opportunity to comment,” a spokesman told AFP.
Paragraph three in Germany’s Basic Law states that “no person shall be favored or disfavored because of sex, parentage, race, language, homeland and origin, faith or religious or political opinions”.
But critics have taken aim at the word “race”, pushing for a change to the constitution in place since 1949 as a bulwark against dictatorships like the Nazi regime which championed racist politics.
The new proposal suggests scrapping the word “race” from the list, instead adding “or for racist reasons”.
“In this way, we will further distance the Basic Law from racial ideologies… while also maintaining protection against discrimination,” the Justice Ministry said. …
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I don’t believe it...
Clown world.
Why is the German Basic Law written in English?
It's translated into English so that English-speakers can read it.
So they will be able to discriminate on the basis of race, so long as it isn’t for a racist reason?
Article 3 says men and women have equal rights. What about all of the other genders?
You would open up a huge mess with the three German ‘the’ situations (die, der, das).
Mark Twain had a lot of fun with the language (in his "The Awful German Language").
Thanks, I compared the German to the translation, and it appears the word in question is “Rasse”. Now, does anyone know what German word they want to replace it?
Women in the USSR are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life. The possibility of exercising these rights is ensured to women by granting them an equal right with men to work, payment for work, rest and leisure, social insurance and education, and by state protection of the interests of mother and child, pre-maternity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens.See Germany’s Article 3 in that?
— 1936 USSR constitution, Article 122
Pretty sure FR doesn’t allow posts from amren.com, but go there and read their piece on The Transformation of Germany. It’s astounding what has happened to that country.
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