[pp.int.general] "interesting" Spiegel piece this week

[Daniel Riaño]

2012/4/23 Justus Römeth <squig at dfpx.de>

> ...
> It does not help of course that some of the party members that were
> elected into important positions reveal rather troublesome statements, not
> because those statements are wrong (most of them are not, at least not if
> you are a free-speech maximalist (which I am not, however, but I try to
> understand what and why they say it here), but because those statements
> will be misunderstood and misinterpreted by the media and society at large,
> which understandably is particularly sensitive with these topics in
> Germany. Overall, we need to learn on how to get better at this kind of
> stuff, and those that hold positions like Carsten Schulz (candidate for
> Hanover center for the 2013 state elections here who is an advocate of
> absolute freedom of speech and unfortunately chose the holocaust as the
> yard stick to measure it with and had his candidacy taken away because of
> that)
>

It is a yardstick, isn't it? At least in Europe. How many other historical
facts' narratives are "protected" by the code laws? Maybe the French are
introducing a few other of their own, but appart from it I can't imagine
other cases.


> need to present their positions in a much more sober way that makes it
> clear why they have that position. Doing so as a candidate for a political
> mandate certainly will not help then. The same goes for what HaSe, the
> chairman of the Berlin Pirates, wrote. The problem is not that we have
> people like them in the party. The problem is that they do not know how to
> present their ideas in a way that can not be misunderstood, and the problem
> is that they were elected in positions that make it seem like those
> positions are shared by many or most German pirates, which they most
> certainly are not.
> ...
>
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