I'm sitting here at the head of my table, outside there are butterflies cavorting through, around and over the various, quite edifyingly tall lilac bushes, the weather is northern German summery and sufficiently warm. I stir up some more cocoa and try to devote myself to the simple daily routine. First, I take a look at new territory and then take a quick stroll through the Facebook timeline, I thought, just see what my friends and acquaintances are up to.
But there may not really be any joy in this, which certainly gives me the opportunity to address you publicly here, but first a few words about my own attitude and yes, it gets kind of serious at this point and even if I do this I am using this platform to publish this appeal, it is primarily a letter addressed to existing residents of my so-called friends list, why will be explained in a moment.
I've been thinking for a long time over the last few weeks and when I looked at my timeline I felt a heavy lump in my throat and a lump in my stomach several times.
I often read friends there saying that they would consistently and without notice thin out their friends list if some of the people there continued to make statements against foreigners or sea rescue in the Mediterranean in the way they did. I was often on the verge of doing it the same way, I already had my finger on the mouse, but then I decided to take a different approach. It may be that this route is wrong, it may be that I will be scolded for it, but since I keep my friends list small, even as a member of Mimikama and Reconquista Internet, it is mostly filled with people with whom I have a personal connection I don't want to thin it out at random, whether it's from my school days or studies or because of the modern Internet. Maybe with a list of 500 or more on the list I would just go for it, but maybe not, maybe it's in my nature to make one last open attempt.
So, dear reader, even if I write it openly here, “you” always refers to those on my friends list, but perhaps you know some yourself to whom this applies, then you are welcome to share it.
One more thing, even if this is something like an open letter, I won't mention any names because, unlike our politicians, athletes, actors, etc., the people are not in the public eye and I won't drag them there either. I think they'll know if they're meant .
We have known each other for a long time and have spent well over half of our lives together, or at least in the knowledge that the other one still exists. We walked the route to school together, roamed the meadows of our village in summer and winter, and experienced little stories with which we could fill long evenings by the fireplace.
A little over a quarter of a century ago, I remember the village clapping “Have you heard? The
A village like this always has something to gossip about, who would know better than me, as a disabled person in a village, everyone's eyes are on it, the single mother is pitied to a certain extent, just enough so that she doesn't have to help her. But that's just how a village is, if you asked, you couldn't really gossip and the fun would quickly be over.
There was a time on Facebook, in my early days, when I was in a way like you, fast-paced, just wanting to have fun here, until one day I got an article linked under one of my shared posts about the content of my post enlightened. I don't even remember what it was about exactly, it was definitely like always when you "just want to have fun" without thinking, click - bang - share and move on. I read the article, spoke to the friend who posted it to me and removed the entire post. Not because I didn't want to have fun anymore, but because I wanted to have fun in honest, realistic ways, I didn't want to burden the people on my friends list with a lie, I didn't want to mislead them if I fell for it If they fell for it, that would be disastrous, I didn't want to manipulate them and certainly not with untruths, because in itself the distribution of a fact-based story is in a certain way an attempt at manipulation, especially in times like today.
What kind of groats are shared these days is actually no longer worth a damn, I can understand anyone who consistently deletes, obvious lies are shared and defended with “but it could have been like that” and then not removed again. Sorry, that's not a "but it could have been that way" but a "why do I care about the truth, I think this lie needs to be spread into the world". The media fatigue that you sometimes use as an excuse only applies to the so-called mainstream media, manipulative media that only serves your fears can continue to be used and spread, after all they only confirm you and don't even try to destroy your worldview , if you're afraid it's easier to control it remotely.
Statements like “We don’t want that” cause itching, because it is never said who “we” are or are, and sometimes “Do you want them around you all the time?” is a question that scares me personally, because with Similar arguments have already been used against residential homes for the disabled in residential areas.
Have you even thought about what the next step could be? That at some point the current target group will no longer be sufficient and then there will perhaps be more homeless people, disabled people and other socially disadvantaged people who you don't want to be around all the time...
Have you considered that those whose songs you sing, blithely pushing their nonsense onto mine as your opinion through your timeline, have a frightening idea about how to treat disabled people?
And at this point, how you deal with it becomes personal for me. If you really share this opinion, if you are already allowing yourself to be manipulated and railing against the current target group, you are making yourself vulnerable, then it will be easy To present you with the next culprits for some misery, does this then apply in your eyes to all other disabled people except me, or will you cross the street the next time we meet just to avoid being seen with me, which is opposite A stone through the window would certainly still be a bearable situation.
I don't want to tell you what to think; others already do that more subtly than I do.
I actually just want to say that I got to know you differently and I just want you to think about how you will react when the direct target is no longer the sea rescues in the Mediterranean and the refugee crisis, but Hartz IV recipients who are unwilling to work or the homeless and others lower end of the social spectrum. How do you react when, as happened in the USA, the free press is shot at?
If none of this offends you because you consider the refugee crisis and everything surrounding it to be the main issue at all, if sharing demonstrably false stories is a hallmark of “passing on information” to you, then I would like to take this opportunity to accompany you thank you for the rest of my life, but then it's better if we go our separate ways from now on. Not because I can't stand you anymore, no, worse, I can't watch how you become more and more bitter and build a wall around your soul, I just don't want to see how hate eats away at you, that's what you are to me Too valuable to people, but unfortunately I have to give up because I can no longer reach your inner self.
Thanks for everything and do it well
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