A fake quote is circulating again, which Margarete Bause is said to have said in 2018.

Wrong quote from Margarete Bause – The most important thing at the beginning:

  1. An alleged quote from Margarete Bause (MdL Bavaria, B'90/The Greens) reads: “Just because someone is raped, robbed or is a serious criminal is not a reason for deportation. Instead, we should take care of him and accept him as he is. There are human rights.”
  2. The quote has been circulating since 2018 and Margarete Bause distances herself from the quote via Facebook.
  3. It is a fake quote.

It's about the following sharepic, which is mainly shared on Facebook:

Screenshot by mimikama.org
Screenshot by mimikama.org

Verifiable quotes from green politicians:

Margarete Bause (MdL Bavaria):

“Just because someone is raped, robbed or has a high level of criminality is not a reason for deportation. Instead, we should take care of him and accept him as he is. There are human rights.

The fact check

This quote is a fake ( we reported ). Margarete Bause wrote the following about this alleged quote on August 20, 2018:

+++ ATTENTION FAKE +++
A fake quote from me has been circulating on the Internet since last week. Although the image used is over a year old and the quote is full of spelling errors, it has spread rapidly. The result: wild insults and threats against my employees and me.

The real tragedy, however, is that this is not an isolated incident. Dozens – if not hundreds – of false reports like this are spread every day. With minimal effort, right-wing blogs create a never-ending flood of propaganda on the Internet. Their goal: to stir up prejudices and spread hatred and agitation.

And the seeds are growing: in this case alone, more than 2,000 people were willing to share an amateurishly edited and obviously incorrect image and thereby fuel the hunt against Alliance 90/The Greens and me. On the one hand, this shows how brutalized the political discourse is, but on the other hand, it also shows how willingly people can now be exploited for hatred and agitation.

None of this is a new phenomenon. Fueled by right-wing populists and right-wing extremists, the political discourse has been shifting and radicalizing for years. Where there were loud cries and warnings not even five years ago, many now shrug their shoulders indifferently. Hatred, agitation and misanthropy have become so commonplace.

Like the frog in the pot, many people don't notice the constantly rising temperature even when it starts to bubble and simmer around us. Just like a month ago when the Federal Criminal Police Office published new figures on violence against refugees and people were pleased that arson attacks on asylum seekers' homes were decreasing - after all, there were only one every other day.

For my part, I don't want to continue to see how a loud minority drives politics and our country forward. For this to succeed, you don't need any heroic deeds, no great courage and not a lot of time. All you have to do is open your mouth. Because as Kofi Annan rightly said: “All evil needs to triumph is the silence of the majority.”

Fake quotes on the internet

Of course, Ms. Bause is not the first to be affected by fake quotes on the Internet. There are also a lot of fake quotes from other politicians circulating online.

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Uwe Ostertag 's quotes are particularly noteworthy. According to his own statements, the man is a (full-time) troll and knows how to take up current topics and knit quotes from them that would definitely pass as “real”.

He also had to answer for this in court .

Conclusion

Trolls like Ostertag have a relatively easy time spreading false news on the Internet because they often enjoy the status of anonymity and do not even state that it is satire or made-up quotes.

Particularly when it comes to alleged politically motivated quotes, it's worth thinking outside the box.


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