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After the New Year’s Eve riots: Merz criticized after Pascha’s statement

After the New Year’s Eve riots: Merz criticized after Pascha’s statement

Because CDU boss Merz referred to children with a migration background as pashas in a discussion about the New Year’s Eve riots, he is criticized. The teachers’ union has had a less indignant response.

CDU leader Friedrich Merz caused a stir with a statement about migrant children and their obedience to teachers. In the context of the riots on New Year’s Eve, Merz said on the ZDF program “Markus Lanz” about dealing with teachers: “And then they want to call these children to order and the result is that the fathers appear in the schools and refuse to do that. Especially when it comes to teachers, that they correct their sons, the little pashas, ​​from time to time.”

The term “Pascha” is used colloquially to refer to men in particular who let themselves be served by a woman as a matter of course.

The president of the teachers’ association agrees with Merz

Heinz-Peter Meidinger, President of the Teachers’ Association, agreed with Merz, “even if of course you have to limit that this cannot be a general suspicion or blanket accusation against all families with a corresponding migration background”. There is a fundamental problem, however, that female teachers in particular are not taken seriously and their authority is not recognised.

Edgar Bohn, chairman of the elementary school association, could not confirm Merz’s claim. “I cannot confirm the quoted statement and the generalization and I think it is very exaggerated and inaccurate,” said Bohn.

“These are mostly young people from the Arab world who are not willing to follow the rules here in Germany, who enjoy challenging this state,” Merz said on the show. He also does not want to accept any excuses, for example if you say that these children had a difficult childhood or that it was difficult in Germany and were not looked after and cared for enough. “Everyone has a chance in this country. They have rarely been as good as they are now. And if you don’t stick to them, it has to be said clearly, you have no place in this country.”

“It’s populism”

Merz received a lot of criticism for his appearance. Economist Marcel Fratzscher, who was also on the show, commented on the CDU chairman’s statements via Twitter: “It’s populism because Mr. Merz implicitly and explicitly generalizes from a small minority to all people with Arabic roots.” Fratzscher said he was very annoyed that he was silent about the statements on the show.

Berlin’s governing mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) also contradicted Merz. It’s a typical thought, it’s about some people who came here and didn’t follow the rules. “But that’s not the case,” said Giffey on Wednesday after the “summit against youth violence” in Berlin’s Red City Hall. “The young people we’re mostly talking about here are Berlin children.” The federal government’s integration commissioner, Reem Alabali-Radovan, was even clearer: “This comment fuels racist resentment.”

The federal manager of the Greens, Emily Büning, accused the CDU man of having an outdated image of society. “Friedrich Merz has not updated his image of society since 1990 and does not understand that we have long been a diverse society,” she said “Zeit online”.

Merz’ appearance was “so creepy and characterized by an inhuman tone that words fail you,” wrote Maurice Conrad, climate protection activist at Fridays for Future, on Twitter. “If the CDU continues like this, it will be rhetorically closer to the NPD than to the democratic center.”

SPD leader Saskia Esken also expressed strong criticism. “Anyone who describes Germany’s children with a migration background as unwanted people on talk shows divides the country and deliberately destroys the cohesion of our society,” Esken told the newspapers of the Bayern media group. Leif-Erik Holm, deputy head of the AfD parliamentary group, called Merz’s criticism completely justified.

Source: Stern

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