Left-wing Berlin wants to ban words such as ‘foreigner’ and ‘asylum seeker

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Officials in Berlin’s left-wing government have a new handbook which states that they can no longer label people as “foreigners” or “asylum seekers”, with both of them allegedly discriminatory.

Words such as foreigners (Ausländer), black passengers (Schwarzfahrer) and asylum seekers (Asylbewerber) should no longer exist in Berlin.

The term “Schwarzfahren” means to “ride black” and refers to riding a train without a paid ticket.In English, it would be the equivalent of disallowing the term “black market”. There is no evidence that the German term “Schwarzfahren” was ever meant to refer to Black people in any manner or intended to be used for any derogatory purpose.

The new handbook rules for officials came from the local senate, which is the executive body of Berlin.With the new guidelines, an official should replace the word “foreigner” with the new term “person with an international past”. The term “black traveler” is also to be…

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