Göring-Eckardt: “30 percent of children and young people today already have a migration background, and I haven’t counted the Ossis yet.”
Katrin Göring-Eckardt from the Green Party actually made this statement in this form. In the Bundestag on September 9, 2015. A wave of hate comments and reactions against Göring-Eckardt followed.
Ahead of the federal election, this quote can currently be found again on social media.
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This quote, which is said to belong to the Green Party politician Göring-Eckardt, has been appearing again and again for years. In contrast to many other quotes that are said about her, this assignment is correct.
Reactions
The reactions to this statement were violent. Göring-Eckardt was almost torn apart on social media and flooded with hate comments. She was accused of racism and discrimination. Especially since she herself comes from East Germany.
The Green politician read out the postings she subsequently received in a video.
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Göring-Eckardt and framing
Framing: A keyword creates a certain frame of meaning by directing the direction of a topic. Here the keyword “migration” is responsible for the fact that people talk about it in different ways. With this very term, there is hardly any possibility of encountering this term without a negative frame of meaning, without negative framing.
This is exactly what led to the massive hate posts here, as many people did not want to be described as people with a migration background.
With Göring-Eckardt's statement and the reactions on social media, two different understandings of the term migration collided.
Conclusion
Yes, Katrin Göring-Eckardt actually made this statement in this form. Already in September 2015.
The quote has been on the Internet for exactly six years and is now being spread again due to the upcoming federal election.
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Source: Frankfurter Rundschau
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