Greens lawmaker Katrin Göring-Eckardt apologized for the post made after Germany’s 2-0 win against Hungary. It comes after a survey showed 21% of Germans would like to see more white players on the national team.
German lawmaker Katrin Göring-Eckardt on Thursday deleted a social media post commenting on the skin color of German football players after it was met with backlash.
She apologized for the post made after Germany’s 2-0 victory over Hungary in their second Euro 2024 stage match on Wednesday.
Göring-Eckhardt is a member of the Greens and vice president of the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament.
“This team is truly exceptional. Just imagine if there were only white German players,” the German lawmaker reportedly said in the now-deleted post on platform X, formerly Twitter.
Oh ok.
So you think she said this in a vacuum, because you didn’t hear what the racists had been saying?
That would make sense. With zero context, it’s hard to understand.
Yes, she’s aware it didn’t come across well…
That’s why she deleted it and clarified…
Like, you know she’s a native German speaking, and sometimes when someone is speaking a second language things come across not as clear?
Apparently she tweeted it, didn’t she? So even if she tweeted it as a response to an ongoing discussion on X, this tweet would’ve been read by many as-is, and the tweet itself wouldn’t have provided a lot of context.
With that being said, I still don’t think her original statement logically made a lot of sense.
That’s all I’m saying bud :) just my opinion.