German lawmaker deletes post on football players' skin color – DW – 06/20/2024
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Greens lawmaker Katrin Göring-Eckardt apologized for the post made after Germany's 2-0 win against Hungary. It comes after a survey showed 21% of Germans would like to see more white players on the national team.

Greens lawmaker Katrin Göring-Eckardt apologized for the post made after Germany’s 2-0 win against Hungary. It comes after a survey showed 21% of Germans would like to see more white players on the national team.

German lawmaker Katrin Göring-Eckardt on Thursday deleted a social media post commenting on the skin color of German football players after it was met with backlash.

She apologized for the post made after Germany’s 2-0 victory over Hungary in their second Euro 2024 stage match on Wednesday.

Göring-Eckhardt is a member of the Greens and vice president of the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament.

“This team is truly exceptional. Just imagine if there were only white German players,” the German lawmaker reportedly said in the now-deleted post on platform X, formerly Twitter.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Because what she said could be taken as her supporting the racists…

    And well adjusted adults apologize after saying something the wrong way…

    Seriously, I don’t understand why you’re so upset. Did you read the article and not understand what was happening?

    Did you never learn to apologize for miscommunication?

    Do you always just double down and if anyone ever apologizes you think they “lost”?

    I am downright intrigued for why you think apologizing is a bad move here…

    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Where did I say anything about the apology being a bad thing?

      I was just explaining that the reason she had to apologise was not backlash by racists or people that misinterpreted what she said, but it was by people that were upset that she even dared to think about the national team in terms of skin colour, regardless of context.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        So is Quokka your other account, and you’ve just been talking to yourself?

        Did you think I replied to you?

        Did you think I was talking about you?

        Are you just replying to every comment in this thread?

        I really don’t understand what you or that other account are doing, if you’re the same person it starts making a little more sense. But I really don’t think any of this is going to be productive.

        Just trying to understand what’s going on here and why people are upset someone apologized for phrasing something poorly.