I was chatting with some friends in a whatsapp group and recieved this: https://exxpress.at/gruene-jugendsprecherin-bezeichnet-weisse-gesellschaft-als-eklig/

My question is: is this true ?

Since it’s in german, he translated to me and i used Google Translator as well. However, i still don’t believe someone can think in this way, specially with all the good things Germany do today. I trust him (my friend), but that news is really strange and disturbing. Are those people (the green youth) taken serious ? Have i interpreted or have him translated the message correctly ? Is this site trustfull ?

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  2. Germany is a free country you can (almost) say anything you want.

    Opinion:
    I have never heard of this individual and consider this topic as non-relevant. This is typical twitter hysteria picked up by klickbaiting news outlets.

    The green youth (as many youth organisations of political parties) are known for going a little bit over board with their way of expression and their political goals.

    Sadly this makes it impossible for them to be taken seriously.

  4. exxpress.at (not to be confused with the express) is a right wing conspiracy/boulevard shit show. It has ties to the right wing austrian party FPÖ. If you read something there you can be sure this did not happen the way they wrote it.

  6. Uh I’d say not. This website was founded in March 2021, so is not exactly trustworthy. It is (in my opinion) a right wing propaganda Website controlled by the FPÖ. (Austrian far right party)

    With regard to editor-in-chief Richard Schmitt, various media point to a close relationship with Heinz-Christian Strache and the FPÖ.

    A fact check on the eXXpress article titled, “Assassination attempt on FPÖ politicians: trace leads to the anti-fascist scene” shows the use of unfounded accusations of leftist “violence” by the website. The wheel nuts of a vehicle that could be visibly recognized as a FPÖ car had been loosened. The inquiry with the police showed that there was no trace of the anti-fascist scene.

    Below i included links for you to learn more about them and how the far-right uses sensationalized media like this to further their political agenda:

    https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXXpress

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Party_of_Austria

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiza_affair

  7. Well, for starters, she’s twenty – she’s not exactly a professional Politician with decades of experience and people writing their speeches. And that in the green youth which is … not exactly a) a rather hot headed and activist part of the party organizations and b) by no means representative of the party as a whole. By the looks of it the green youth organization talks for itself, mostly, and for itself only.

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    What she says in context is that people would more identify and gather around a white person than a black one – in this case Greta Thunberg who, indeed, looks quintessential swedish down to the hairstyle.

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    I wouldn’t read the soundbite as “white people are disgusting” but more as a missed attempt on stringing attributes to their associated nouns. Personally, I am not part of the group so I suspect also that there might be more in the jargon I don’t really catch such. Maybe someone deeper into the matter can enlighten me.

    My work hypothesis (out of thin air and a lazy sunday afternoon, I have to admit) would be something along the lines that she specifically means “eklig-weiß” ans in white people being on the internalized racism side as opposed to “whatever-else-weiß” which happen to be white, but don’t make a toxic point out of it. I dunno.

  8. Her point isn’t that it’s a problem how the FFF movement is mostly white. She thinks that FFF wouldn’t have worked if the movement was started by people of color, simply because the majority of people here in Germany couldn’t identify themselves with for example a black Greta Thunberg. This thinking in categories is what is bothering her. If FFF was black, it wouldn’t have grown that much to become a global movement of this size.

    So this site pretty much took a quote from her without the context. Seems shady.

  9. This is from 2019. On Twitter she wrote that she’s sorry about using the term “eklig” (nasty) and that she better had used the term “unfair”. I use “eklig” inappropriately sometimes myself so I believe her that she didn’t really mean it that way. Here’s the link to her tweet https://twitter.com/xsarahleee/status/1201563277630816256?s=21 Also, I agree with many other comments that this is right wing propaganda. It’s a inaccuracy in wording from a 19 year old – Jesus we could spend our time better than discussing about such bullshit…

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