Dispute over the left-wing push to Glentleiten: District President proposes not to deal with the application because of the choice of words
Created: 06/28/2022, 13:54
By: Roland Lory
If the left had its way, all refugees would have free entry to the Glentleiten open-air museum, and not just those from Ukraine.
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A motion by the left parliamentary group in the district council caused a stir.
It is about free entry for refugees to the Glentleiten and Amerang museums.
District President Josef Mederer proposes not to even deal with the application tomorrow, Wednesday, in the Committee for Culture, Schools and Museums.
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– Professor Klaus Weber, parliamentary group spokesman for the Left Party in the district council, is a combative spirit.
This was shown, for example, in connection with the conflict over a table of the Bad Kohlgruber Trachtler at the Hörnle (we reported).
Weber is currently having a dispute with District President Josef Mederer (CSU).
It happened like this: After the beginning of the war, the district of Upper Bavaria granted Ukrainian refugees free entry to the Glentleiten and Amerang museums.
This brought the parliamentary group of the left in the district assembly on the plan.
She applied for free access to these two district facilities for all refugees.
"With the limitation to 'refugees from Ukraine', the district violates the Equal Treatment Act (AGG) and promotes an inherent racism that is widespread in our country, which gives people with a certain skin color, certain areas of origin et cetera priority over other people who are culturally superior or 'Western'," says the initiative by the left, which Weber signed.
He also points out, among other things,
The motion is on Wednesday's agenda
District President Mederer dislikes this choice of words.
He therefore proposes not to deal with the initiative tomorrow, Wednesday, in the Committee on Culture, Schools and Museums (9.30 a.m., meeting room of the district council in Munich, Prinzregentenstraße 14).
"The motion assumes in the justification that the EU wants to set up a 'concentration camp' at its external borders," says the meeting draft signed by Mederer.
The paper thus equates the EU and the states in the EU with the rule of National Socialism.
"At the same time, the comparison inappropriately relativizes the crimes of National Socialism, especially in the Nazi concentration camps." The quotation marks around the word concentration camp did not change that.
“The content of the term is very clear and exposed.
It cannot be inferred from the application that his argumentation should not be specifically reinforced with the effect that the term concentration camp has.
"The district of Upper Bavaria is not willing to deal with the application on this basis of argument in its committees." treat."
Of course, Weber does not like this approach at all.
"All allegations are not proven, but only alleged and are considered proven without any proof being provided," he says.
Weber asks, "What's wrong with comparing something that doesn't mean equating?" He put the term concentration camp in quotation marks to indicate that it didn't correspond to the Nazi-era (and post-1945 historical research) term. correspond to
For Weber it is clear: "A civilized way of writing and speaking would address arguments point by point and refute or invalidate them or enter into a dialogue.
But what the president and administration want is nothing other than the disappearance of an application in order to avoid the well-founded accusations of racism.”
In April, Mederer “did not want to anticipate this discussion”
Incidentally, in April Mederer had not yet suggested not to deal with the application.
At that time, the CSU politician did not want to comment on the content.
"Out of respect for the political bodies of the district council, the president of the district council does not want to anticipate this discussion," it said at the time.
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