Christine Prayon on Satire, Corona, and the Ukraine War – A Provocative Truth Quote

"Political correctness has now reached a level in our society that I see as highly questionable. It starts with the deletion of more and more postings in the social media. Postings, mind you, with content that is clearly not punishable or otherwise legally actionable. The mere fact that a certain group might feel offended by a text is enough. More and more companies and corporations are joining this unfortunate trend and issuing internal memos about required language rules or how to deal with certain topics, the disregard of which can lead to serious consequences for employees. Again, these are not criminal or justiciable matters (which, of course, should rightly be stopped), but rather some of the most harmless formulations and matters that are actually covered by the right to freedom of expression. What I find most alarming, however, is the development at our universities. Places where the free exchange of ideas and opinions should actually be part of the basic equipment. Almost every day, professors, doctoral students and other university staff tell me that they would now be risking their careers if they were to publicly question or criticize current developments at universities. Theses and assertions have even become established there in the meantime, some of which contradict a fundamental scientific factual basis. Unfortunately, I do not see the end of the line. I think it will get much worse." Vince Ebert

""I'm fed up, or to put it even more clearly: I'm fed up with the permanent and increasingly religious climate gibberish, with energy turnaround fantasies, with electric car worship, with scary stories about doomsday scenarios from Corona to conflagrations to weather catastrophes. I can no longer stand the people who shout this into microphones and cameras every day or print it in newspapers. I suffer from having to witness how natural science is turned into a whore of politics. I am tired of being told what to be ashamed of by abused, pubescent children. I am tired of being told by some deranged people that I am to blame for everything and everyone - but especially as a German for the past, present and future misery of the whole world. I am tired of religious and sexual minorities, who shamelessly exploit their well-defined minority rights with non-stop media support, trying to tell me what I can and cannot do and say. I am fed up with people who are completely out of their minds, who ruin my German mother tongue and who think they have to teach me how to write and speak in a way that is appropriate for the mainstream. I'm tired of seeing how completely uneducated people, who have done nothing in their lives but carry a foreign briefcase, believe they can rule Germany. I can't stand it any more when, under the pretext of a "colorful society", justice and security disappear and when, in the evening, coming out of the central station, one has to step over dirt, filth, homeless people, drug addicts and procuring criminals, past scribbled walls. I would like my country to value and support the people, regardless of gender, skin color and origin, whose hard-working, productive and value-creating work produces the wealth of the entire society every day: the employees in companies, the craftsmen, the freelancers, the many committed and socially active entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized businesses. I want the teachers of our children, the doctors and nurses of our sick and needy to receive the recognition, appreciation and support they deserve every day. I want the young and the impetuous to let off steam within the well-established boundaries of our legal space, but also to bow down to their parents and grandparents, to the old and the experienced, because they are the creators of their prosperity and freedom."" Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke