For some time now, Westdeutscher Rundfunk has been next the display – broadcast initially, then assume. That was at “Oma-Gate”, at Racism Speak and at this time at Carnival. The broadcaster protected an incriminated passage with a bulletin board in a television compilation of former carnival demonstrates. The sequence reveals the controversial apply of “Blackfacing”, which is perceived as racist: whites ended up revealed on the carnival phase in black makeup. In the media library of the general public broadcaster, the influenced sequence of the software “Jet zo fiere! The ideal point about getting awarded the buy ‘Against animal seriousness’ ”when looking at a bulletin board in its place of the illustrations or photos, the sound continues at the same time.
The board reads: “This online video contains an excerpt from 2010 that we have taken out. It reveals people with ‘black faces’ on stage. ‘Blackfacing’ is now rightly criticized and frowned on at the carnival. The scene really should not have been involved in the compilation. “
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The demonstrate was on the Sunday night time Television demonstrate on WDR tv. Then arrived the criticism on Twitter. The WDR also responded to this, tweeting: “Something like this shouldn’t occur to us, specially immediately after the discussions of the final number of months. And it reveals that we still have a whole lot to do here. “
The finish of gypsy sauce
A short while ago, racism experienced presently been criticized in a WDR broadcast. At the stop of January a repetition of the round desk “The Past Occasion” was demonstrated. Host Steffen Hallaschka discussed social problems with company Micky Beisenherz, Thomas Gottschalk, Janine Kunze and Jürgen Milski, which include the question: “The stop of gypsy sauce: Is that a vital action?” One particular of the crucial details was that the dialogue was special was led by white friends. The station admitted problems, the moderator and some attendees to the discuss apologized.
Thomas Gottschalk wrote in a visitor put up on “Welt am Sonntag”: “In regards to the Z term of the” Final Vacation resort “, I gave the green gentle to an expression that I will clearly show the crimson card in the long term, and I guarantee not to use the word unfortunate again. ” (with dpa)