After Annalena Baerbock pronounced the N-word in an interview, she now receives surprising support from a controversial colleague.
Berlin - Few would have thought that Boris Palmer would come to the aid of his party colleague in the N-word debate.
The Green politician is controversial within his own party.
There is even a party expulsion process against the mayor of Tübingen, which was also supported by Annalena Baerbock.
Because he used the N-word on Facebook in May in connection with the former national soccer player Dennis Aogo.
"I think that she did everything right this time in communicating on the subject," the politician told
Bild.
Baerbock had given the Central Council of Jews an interview on anti-Semitism and racism and pronounced the N-word.
The Chancellor candidate did not use the word as an insult, but reproduced it in a story in which she criticized a school she knew.
According to this, the word - a racist term often used in the past for blacks - was on a worksheet that was distributed to students.
Before the broadcast, the politician apologized in a nine-part tweet.
"Unfortunately, in the recording of the interview, I quoted the word in the emotional description of this unspeakable incident and thus reproduced it myself," wrote Baerbock.
Baerbock and the N-Word: Sorry triggers Shitstorm
On Twitter, Baerbock also stated that she had become aware of the error during the recording. That is why the Green Party decided, in consultation with the Central Council of Jews, to drown out the word with a beep when it was broadcast from August 1st. In addition, the politician said that her mistake had nothing to do with the statements of Boris Palmer. “It is obvious that these are two different things in different contexts,” says Baerbock.
The chancellor candidate's tweets still triggered a shit storm.
There was mainly criticism from right-wing and conservative circles.
It was said, for example, that Baerbock failed because of its own claims.
Boris Palmer sees it differently.
The Lord Mayor of Tübingen praised Baerbock's handling of her faux pas.
So she immediately thought about how to properly deal with her mistake and then found a solution together with the Central Council of Jews.
He thinks that it is the right decision to drown out the word when it is broadcast.
"Then everything is clear what it is about, but the word is not unnecessarily trumpeted into the world," says Palmer.
Boris Palmer sees a big difference between his behavior and Baerbock's behavior
Similar to Baerbock, Palmer himself does not see any similarities between his statements and the statements of the chancellor candidate.
"There is a big difference between what she did and what I did," he told the
picture.
According to the newspaper, he wanted his party expulsion process himself to clarify the matter.
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