<div class="gmail_extra">2012/4/23 Justus Römeth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:squig@dfpx.de" target="_blank">squig@dfpx.de</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">...<div>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) </div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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.</div>
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