German police officers banned from saying 'woman' and 'refugee'

Published 20 December 2022 at 17.40

Foreign. The Berlin police must use a “discrimination-sensitive” and gender-neutral form of language in the future, according to new guidelines.

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The Berliner Landeskriminalamt (LKA) has drawn up a guide for “discrimination-sensitive language”, writes Junge Freiheit.

The police officers must use the form of language chosen by the persons concerned and avoid terms such as ” refugee”.

Even words such as “hijab wearer”, “mentally disabled” and “race” are on the list of prohibited words.

LKA recommends that police officers listen carefully and respect the self-designation which the person concerned uses.

When the police write reports and documents, they must contain so-called gender colons, a left-wing German way of writing professional titles so that they become gender neutral.

The Berlin government already adopted in September 2020 a diversity program that prescribes the use of new sensitive expressions such as “people with a migration background” instead of immigrants, among other things.


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