Anyone who reads the column of Zhang Danhong regularly, could get the impression that she has joy, to respect the rules of PC (political correctness). But this impression is deceptive, says the columnist.
I have no reason to be against political correctness. Quite the contrary – I am counting but to the profiteers of the PC movement. Because I belong to three groups, the Correct are under special protection in the political: firstly, I am a woman, secondly a wife with a migrant background and, thirdly, also an atheist woman with an immigrant background. That atheists of a particular protection is required, has not spoken to here in Germany is still around. But since the. Because Germany follows the USA, always with a certain time delay. And there it will hold the activists of the movement “People of Color” it is unacceptable to wish someone after a Sneeze is “(God) bless you”, because of the Niesende could be an Atheist. And it would be a joke to bring him to God into the game.
The subtle difference between “student ID” and “student ID”
Perhaps because of this equal to three times the protection has complained so far, nobody that I ignore the gender-appropriate language. But that’s not entirely true. My daughter has bitched that I still say “student card”, although it is a long time “student ID”. I’m not doing this out of opposition to political correctness, but because I am firmly convinced that it is not likely to remain in the current practice. As in the case of the gender-responsive speech: “ladies and gentlemen”, “ladies” and, more recently, “Colleagues”, or “colleagues”. To implement any Change immediately, is to me much too stressful. As a non-native speaker, I do already more than enough with the intricacies of German grammar.
DW-editor Zhang Danhong
So, I follow the linguistic development with great interest and just wait for the final, well for correctly judged to be the Form one, in the shape of a Law cast.
If I drop a not-quite-politically correct Tweet to test then only to the vigilance of my colleagues. As the company Twitter was going to double in the last autumn, the character limit from 140 to 280, I tweeted the message with the following sentence: “Twitter is now a woman-friendly.” Barely two minutes later, a colleague in my office, stormed in and wanted to know who was the author of that misogynistic Tweet. Test passed – my colleagues are vigilant!
Shakespeare is no longer viable
The PC movement has started already 40 years ago, but only recently they got really in motion. And as always, we must look on with envy in the USA: There the contempt for women, glorifies violence and depression – inducing plays of William Shakespeare before each performance – will be illuminated when they are listed at all-by the respective theatre-in-chief, accordingly, critical. Even the Clapping after this is already being discussed controversially: Could not feel the one-Armed or no-armed at a disadvantage? I find that, according to this logic, also about the football world Cup should also be considered, eventually be excluded on the lawn in the wheelchair.
“Othello, the moor of Venice” is clearly prohibited
Apropos the world Cup: During the just ended world Cup, the merging of TV were invited to the transmitter, to show the less beautiful women in the audience. I think that the less beautiful women are already the majority. But no, I was wrong. It wasn’t about More versus minorities, but the diversity. Because the prompt made by the diversity officer of the FIFA.
Also, the diversity of the sexes must finally be in the language taken into account. A mammoth task for the various officers to not blow up in the design of politically correct speech frame, without discriminating against Bisexuals and other sexually Indecisive.
Also discriminatory is the N-word for people of African descent. I have learned during my German studies in Beijing. But when the Berlin theatre meeting even the cast of a neo-Nazi was banned, to call to the stage for an African the “N-word”, as the writer Tina Uebel in the weekly newspaper “reported time” the other day, makes the piece for the theatre of the absurd.
Half of the world’s literature would have to disappear
It’s not that I find this strange as all the terrific find. I see it just a bit. Because all of this is familiar to me – from the cultural revolution in China. At the time, it was said, the Old must be destroyed before the New can be built. Today, PC are-the red guard units surrounds it, to remove the world of literature to sift through, and the words to be or not to rewrite, corresponding to the today’s Standards of political correctness. Grimm’s fairy tales should best be banished altogether, as brutal as they are. When Astrid Lindgren in ten or twenty years, should not still be on the Index, will I be able to my grandchildren, perhaps, of Pippi Longstocking and her father tell, of the – you know it’s safe – N-word-the king in the South seas.
Mao-Bible – favorite reading of the Chinese during the cultural revolution
One should keep the avid PC fighter, however: that the Americans have chosen the Anti-PC hero Donald Trump to the President and the Chinese cultural revolution, has led the middle Kingdom is ultimately in a social Chaos and a cultural desert. Much cultural heritage was lost at the time, for always. Then the debris was cleared away and it was started Anew. I am already looking forward to the day that the public again about one of my favorite Woody Allen joke laughed: “Is a Black man in the subway, and reads a Jewish newspaper in the Hebrew Scriptures. A White man says to him: ‘the Negroes alone are not enough for you?'”
Zhang Danhong was born in Beijing and lives for over 25 years in Germany.
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