Posted on 01/10/2023 5:30:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The term "climate terrorists" has been named Germany's "non-word" for 2022, according to a jury of linguists in Marburg in Hessen who said the term discredited people who campaigned for climate protection measures and compliance with the Paris Climate Agreement.
The jury criticized the phrase "climate terrorists" for defaming and criminalizing activists. The climate crisis, Russia's war on Ukraine and the migration discourse dominated the search for the "non-word" of 2022.
According to the jury, non-violent protest and democratic resistance is placed in the context of being anti-state by equating climate activists with terrorism. The focus of the debate shifts from what the jury considered to be "justified substantive demands" on how to deal with the activists.
By using the term, the global threat posed by climate change is no longer in the center of the debate. Similarly, the activists' demand that effective political measures be taken to combat the crisis is also not given enough attention. Instead, the focus of the public debate shifts on how to react to the protesters with political or legal ramifications, the jury explained.
The jury, which is mainly made up of linguists, wants to draw attention to "undifferentiated, obfuscating or defamatory public language use" overall and raise people's awareness of the issue.
Last year, the term "pushback" was chosen as the "non-word" of the year. The committee explained that it glossed over an inhumane process of pushing back asylum-seekers and migrants at the borders.
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I’ll be sure to work it in to speech.
Use “climate alarmist” and “climate radicals” a fair bit.
“a jury of linguists”
Language terrorists.
You will think the way I tell you to.
Living without heat, air conditioning or ICE transport can drive people crazy apparently.
I would blame German Gesetz[law] if I was them.
Yeah, under the skin Germany has not changed a bit in all these years.
Climate terrorists do exist. It may be used too much but to shadowban the concept because you support terrorist organizations like Green Peace and lawfare groups like the sierra club is just terribly biased.
“I am shocked, shocked I say!”
Saint Greta says, “How dare you.”
yep. Want to anger a liberal? Call “pro-choice” “pro-abortion”.
You don’t understand. There can be no such thing as a climate terrorist because their cause is just.
Get a few anti-migrant protesters with signs.... *they* are terrorists.
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