When it comes to quotes on the internet, you should take a closer look. Same with this one.

We received a few requests for a quote image from Renate Künast – German politician, Bündnis90/Die Grünen. And she is said to have said the following, according to this picture:

Request for this image / screenshot from mimikama.org
Request for this image / screenshot from mimikama.org

“Integration starts with you as a German learning Turkish!”

Renate Künast The Greens

This is not the first time that we have received requests for quote images (especially in the area of ​​politics). From twisted statements to made-up statements, you have to be prepared for anything on the internet. Anyone who Easter Day knows what I'm talking about.

So let’s take a closer look at this quote.

The fact check

It can be said: The quote is not true or Künast did not say it that way.

The alleged quote has been circulating as a meme since the beginning of 2015 and is based on a statement by Renate Künast that she made on the Beckmann - der Talk on August 30, 2010.

Green Party Quotes blog wrote on October 7, 2016:

On the talk show “Beckmann” Thilo Sarrazin, Aygül Özkan – then Social Minister of Lower Saxony – and Renate Künast once sat together, with Sarrazin having difficulty pronouncing Ms. Özkan’s name correctly. Ms. Künast then apparently intervened several times. The original quote above reads as follows:

“Integration starts with you as a German remembering your name.”

Künast himself also commented on the circulating quote via Facebook and wrote on February 23, 2015:

There has been a campaign for some time now that claims that I said that integration begins with us all first learning Turkish.
I didn't make that statement.

Years ago, in a discussion on “Beckmann/ARD”, I reacted to Thilo Sarrazin, who simply refused to correctly pronounce the name of Aygül Özkan, another interviewee, and said:
“Integration begins with you as a German making your own Remember the name.”

This campaign will not be discussed in more detail.

There is also an archived Twitter post by Erika Steinbach - German politician, independent, CDU until January 2017 - who has often attracted attention in the past through controversial publications on Twitter (see Germany 2030 ).

This deleted tweet contains the requested quote image:

Result:

It is a distorted quote that Renate Künast did not express in this way.

The sentence used to be: “Integration begins with you as a German remembering your name” and not “Integration begins with you as a German learning Turkish”.

However, it is not clear who the original creator of this image was.


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