There's a piece on Focus today, where the chief of the federal police union spoke up over a new issue. Amusing in some way.....a sign of the times in other ways.
The head of LKA (the German federal police) handed down new instructions.
First, the members of the police have been told not to use the term 'refugee'.....the correct term is 'people seeking protection'.
Second, in the past, if the police were trying to use a term for criminals from Lebanon, Turkey or the 'region'.....they'd say 'southern'. Well....that term is now strongly discouraged. The new term? 'West Asian'.
Third, in the past where police would utter a statement which mentioned women who wore headscarf's, identified people as stupid, identified people of a certain race, or suggested that people were mentally deficient.....the police are now encouraged just not to mention any of these conditions, period.
I would imagine most of the police will laugh over the instructions, and spend a fair amount of time on social media criticizing the language business/instructions.
Generally, the German public will use a number of words to describe stupid people. Some of those? Arschgeige, is a good example. Translated? It goes to a person who always screws up and translates into 'butt violin'.
You could also use 'Evolutionsbremse'.....which typically means a person who exists on the planet to hold up the advancement of mankind. Translation? It means a 'brake for evolution'.
I should also note this....there's a national handbook for journalists, written by an association....which went to a evolutionary stage around 2015. They also wrote word changes and tried to hype journalists to avoid non-woke situations or stir up public frustration with the same 'regulation' mentality.
All of this change on words....leading to 'wokeism'? Probably
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