Zebra
Gold Member
about wokeness in Germany
I have just come across this article: "Germany is a world leader in wokeness"
www.spiked-online.com
I quote:
If you read this article, you may understand why I have become a little bit critical regarding over-woke language.
In Germany some may be very thorough and strict.
I have just come across this article: "Germany is a world leader in wokeness"

Germany is a world leader in wokeness
German elites are in thrall to gender ideology and BLM-syle identity politics.

I quote:
Certainly, ordinary Germans would find this gender-neutral language perplexing. But it is not as if gender-neutral German has simply been cooked up by a few woke academics in the UK. Quite the opposite. So-called Gendersprache (gender language) has been zealously promoted by many public institutions in Germany for a while now. Federal and state governments, as well the media and big corporations, are all trying to push this new ‘inclusive’ way of speaking.
Take the city of Hanover, for example. Gender-neutral language has been used for all official communications since 2019, with many other local governments following suit. Or take the first female chief of the Berlin police, Barbara Slowik. In 2019, she announced that she would no longer be referred to as the ‘police chief’ (der Polizeipräsident), as the term is masculine. But instead of opting for the feminine form of the same title (die Polizeipräsidentin), she decided on the gender-neutral ‘Polizei Berlin’ – meaning literally ‘the Berlin police’. Which is as nonsensical as it sounds.
If you read this article, you may understand why I have become a little bit critical regarding over-woke language.
In Germany some may be very thorough and strict.