If you’ve been in Germany too long, sometimes you forget to notice the problems that the mainstream German press has reporting about race. raskal trippin noted the reporting on a racist beating in Potsdam.
from the 4 sentence description on the news in Brandenburg (Berliner Zeitung): “schwarze Deutscher”/ black German “fremdenfeinlichen Hintergrund” /xenophobic background “gebürtige Äethopier” /Ethopian-born
As she says, the story should simply read “Ernyas M., a 37-year-old man from Potsdam, was attacked in a racially motivated hate crime”. Everything else is irrelevant.
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I’m not sure I get this logic, either.
“As far as I can tell, there are an increasing number of minor attacks, insults, provocations, and, of course, foreigners will sometimes be insulted or bodily attacked…”
“Spokesman Benedikt Welfens said that while racial tensions had been rising in Potsdam, the attack was not part of a trend.”
Hmmm, rising racial tensions, increasing number of attacks…but not part of a trend. Go figure.
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