{"id":256226,"date":"2022-07-19T06:07:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T06:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=256226"},"modified":"2022-07-21T05:12:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T05:12:53","slug":"germanys-new-anti-discrimination-commissioner-labeled-ethnic-germans-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=256226","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s new anti-discrimination commissioner labeled ethnic Germans \u2018potatoes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Cody \u2013 ReMix News July 13, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Ferda Ataman has become Germany\u2019s new federal commissioner for anti-discrimination despite claims of racism and her past instance of referring to ethnic Germans are \u201cpotatoes\u201d in a magazine column she wrote.<\/p>\n

The controversial Ataman has built a career around identity politics, and has made a number of racist remarks in the past, including in a Spiegel column where she wrote that many German citizens \u201csometimes mutate into thin-skinned Emo-Germans\u201d if they are called \u201cpotatoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

She further wrote: \u201cA surprising number of people see this as insulting discrimination.\u00a0Why?\u201d She then proceeds to answer her own question, writing, \u201cSo the outrage about \u2018potato Germans\u2019 is about something else.\u00a0It\u2019s about the inner resistance to deal with yourself and your own privileges.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has also referred to Germans as \u201calmans,\u201d which is derogatory slang for Germans displaying \u201ctypical\u201d German traits.<\/p>\n

In her\u00a0Spiegel\u00a0column in February, she called out Germans to participate in \u201cname guerrilla\u201d actions and recommended that ethnic German parents name their children \u201cOsman, Aliyeh, Khuyen\u201d while migrant children, on the other hand, should be given traditional German names.<\/p>\n

Ataman\u2019s Twitter feed was full of posts about White privilege, migrant issues, and so-called discrimination, however, she proceeded to reportedly delete thousands of her Twitter posts once her campaign for anti-discrimination commissioner began. Ataman, whose parents were from Turkey, has also been accused of ignoring the issues of forced marriages<\/a>, Turkish nationalism<\/a>, and genital mutilation<\/a>, all issues that have plagued Germany due to a rise in migration.<\/p>\n

Ataman won her commissioner position after a vote in the German Parliament (Bundestag), earning 376 yes votes against 278 no voters and 14 abstentions. However, many politicians fiercely opposed her appointment, saying she was not fit to judge matters of anti-discrimination given her past history.<\/p>\n

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) member of the Bundestag, Christoph de Vries, refused to vote for her, writing on Twitter.\u00a0\u201cAnyone who has to clean up their past by deleting thousands of tweets in order to hide their position should not bear any future responsibility in the federal government as anti-discrimination officer.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wer seine Vergangenheit durch L\u00f6schung tausender Tweets bereinigen muss, um seine Haltung zu verbergen, sollte f\u00fcr die Zukunft keine Verantwortung in der @BReg_Bund<\/a> als #Antidiskriminierungsbeauftragte<\/a> tragen. Ich werde am Donnerstag gegen die Wahl von Ferda #Ataman<\/a> stimmen.<\/p>\n

— Christoph de Vries (@VriesChristoph) July 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n