BERLIN: A row has broken out in Germany over the term 'race' in the country's Constitution as American George Floyd's killing in United States ...
BERLIN: A row has broken out in Germany over the term"race" in the country's Constitution as American George Floyd's killing in United States police custody spills over into national politics.Paragraph three in Germany's Basic Law states that"no person shall be favoured or disfavoured because of sex, parentage, race, language, homeland and origin, faith or religious or political opinions".
Backing the call, Germany's commissioner for combatting anti-Semitism Felix Klein said:"The term race is a social construct that is designed to devalue and to discriminate against people."The far-left Linke party and the business-friendly Free Democrats have all lined up behind the push, with some critics of the term calling for it to be replaced with words like"ethnic origin".
Adolf Hitler's regime championed his claims on racial"purity" and purported the superiority of the"Germanic race" – which he called the Aryan"master race". "If there are races, then there should not be objections to the current version of the Basic Law, because then it rightly fits in it. If, on the other hand, there are no races, then there would be no racism," argued deputy spokesman for the party Stephan Brandner in an interview with the RND newspaper group.
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