In its crackdown on pro-Palestine speech, Germany has normalized racism and state violence in a way that goes beyond any conflict abroad, reminding us this really is the country of the 1920s, again.
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei recently wrote when he was commissioned by Germany’s Zeit Magazin to write about “what I wished I had known about Germany before.” After excoriating German self-censorship and conformism, he was, in fact, censored, with the newspaper spiking the commission.
You, @acargitz, posted Ai Weiwei’s comment here in this community a few days ago. Read the thread there: https://feddit.org/post/20718123 Spoiler: Ai Weiwei was not ‘censored’, he wasn’t published likely because his write-up didn’t make sense.
And this is just one deeply flawed point in your rant here. I would also suggest that you learn about Germany before scrapping the web for negative news to spread your propaganda.
What are you taking about? Do you think all articles journalists write for a newspaper are published? There are probably dozens of articles not making it online or to print each edition.
You, @acargitz, posted Ai Weiwei’s comment here in this community a few days ago. Read the thread there: https://feddit.org/post/20718123 Spoiler: Ai Weiwei was not ‘censored’, he wasn’t published likely because his write-up didn’t make sense.
And this is just one deeply flawed point in your rant here. I would also suggest that you learn about Germany before scrapping the web for negative news to spread your propaganda.
Yhea wtf. A private newspaper deciding to not publish an article is not censorship.
The article is publicly available in Germany https://hyperallergic.com/1050197/what-i-wish-i-had-known-about-germany-earlier/
And other newspaper are writing about it:
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur-vergnuegen/kunst/ai-weiwei-und-das-zeit-magazin-vom-bequemen-mainstream-der-sich-nichts-traut-li.10002953
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No, you don’t have a god given right to have your article published on any newspaper you’d like to
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What are you taking about? Do you think all articles journalists write for a newspaper are published? There are probably dozens of articles not making it online or to print each edition.
I find problematic the framing of “scraping the internet for negative news to spread propaganda”. It is deeply bad faith and conspiratorial.
What do you mean “my rant here”? The text above is a reproduction of the paywalled article, not my composition.
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