Heino doesn't give a damn about the racism debate: He wants to continue using discriminatory taboo words

Schlager old star Heino (81) does not want to be banned from the word "gypsy".

He sees no problem with the term, which is offensive to Sinti and Roma.

• Schlager icon Heino

  wants to

  continue to use

  the word

  "gypsy"

  .

• The racism debate about the discriminatory term for Sinti and Roma is not new.

• Even in the restaurant, the Schlager singer will not do without the name, he admits.

Munich - The

recently received more attention.

Food manufacturer Knorr had removed the term from the name of its paprika sauce, and other companies followed suit.

The

is hardly used today.

After all, it is based on a

.

There

is much more to

the word

than the name of a flavor.

“'

' is a foreign term used by the majority society, overlaid by clichés, which is

rejected

as

by most members of the minority

,” explains the

.

"Gypsy" discriminatory: Heino wants to use the term anyway

The

is anything but young.

As early as 2013, the Central Council called for the name of the food concerned to be changed.

At that time,

refused

to do so, referring to the

.

The food manufacturer has rethought today, but

suddenly

argues in a

similar way

in an interview with

.

“I don't understand why you can

suddenly no longer call

that,” the 81-year-old rumbled, “as if we had no other problems in Germany!

I will

"

Heino polemical about the "Gypsy" debate:

Heino ponders how music titles would have to change. "Or should I now

sing

?", He asks polemically and makes it clear that it doesn't make any sense to him.

Does he forget that in the song he is

singing about

, but about an ethnic group with a discriminatory term?

This accusation now comes to the ex-DSDS juror *.

“We had great parties and

,

.

On the contrary, ”he

, having been friends

with many

.

Heino's radical decision: “

I will

“