Posted on 02/15/2020 11:10:28 AM PST by Olog-hai
Who decides whether a word is racist? Does it depend on context? Thats what a German state court said after a far-right AfD politician repeatedly used the N-word in a debate. The decision caused outrage and action.
In the Duden online German dictionary, the word Neger (hereafter referred to as the N-word) is defined as a term for a person of (very) dark skin. In German, it is considered today to be the equivalent of both the dated and debated English term Negro and also the undeniably racist term nr. The German words definition also includes a warning in red describing it as highly discriminatory and to be avoided.
Whether uttered in parliament or in a personal conversation, the use of the N-word in Germany to refer to black people is always derogatory, activist Charlotte Nzimiro says. [ ]
Nzimiro was therefore angry when the State Constitutional Court of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in northeast Germany, ruled in December 2019 that while the term is generally understood to be pejorative, whether it actually is depends on the context in which it is used.
The ruling came after Nikolaus Kramer, a state leader of the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, used the N-word several times during a debate in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament in November 2018. He said he did not want to be told what is or is not offensive. When Kramer was reprimanded for his use of the term, he defended himself in court and won.
Nzimiro was on the train when she found out about the verdict. She broke out in a sweat, she told DW. Furious, she decided to start a petition on change.org calling for the N-word to be legally recognized as racist.
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Seems to me they have bigger battles to fight.
I read somewhere that WWII video games use the old German tricolor flag to represent German forces because a game using the swastika would be banned in Germany. So yeah, I thought the n-word in question here would be Nazi (really).
I guess Im just not woke enough.
All forms of socialism ought to have been taboo in what became West Germany; but the left in the USA encouraged the rise of the “social market economy” under Adenauer, built by “former” national socialists and of course being a continuation of the old “state socialism” built up by Bismarck (as national socialism itself was).
Arnolds last name is Schwarzenegger. Swartz means black. Make of that what you will.
I suppose the Germans are going to begin prosecuting all the rap singers who use the term all the time?
Come to think of it, the Sharia-compliant niqab also starts with an n. And note that we can see the face the polizei woman below. She is obviously an infidel harlot.
So what is Arnold’s last name? Schwarze (ie “black) negger. Gasp! I guess he’ll have to change his name now.
It doesn’t have the same connotation in German.
Obviously the word they’re fighting is “normal”.
Well, the real division in the word is “Schwarzenegg-er”, i.e. someone from Schwarzenegg in Austria (there’s a town with the same name in Switzerland); the name of the town means “black ridge”.
But certainly the pun you mention can be made in either German or English.
There is an entire generation that thinks this is a legal document.
Whatever letters are thrown together, it’s still only a word.
Guess they should inform the two African countries of Niger and Nigeria that their names have their origin in the word for black, and since their people are almost 100% black, they should change their names to something like Rojo and Rojoria (red), or Verde or Verderia.....
DUH!
Specifically in that case, it’s the Latin word for “black”.
Overheard Germans using the term “Die Negern” often. “Shvartzes” is more Yiddish than German.
“Die Negern” referred to Americans in general, not just American blacks.
That was 38 years ago; the Konrads now have much bigger fish to fry in the `dark skinned foreigners’ department than they did before, if you get my drift.
Just say schwartze!!!
Nitrogen?
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