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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 08:44 PM Mar 2016

Austrian politician under fire for comparing refugees to Neanderthals

Source: Reuters

Sat Mar 19, 2016 5:13pm GMT

Austrian politician under fire for comparing refugees to Neanderthals


Austria's Green Party on Saturday called on an Austrian lawmaker to resign after he compared refugees to "Neanderthals who trample under foot the rights of women".

In remarks in parliament this week which he reiterated later in a statement, Robert Lugar said most refugees and migrants arriving in Austria were "uneducated, religiously blinded, fanatical (and) impossible to integrate.

Austria has mainly served as a conduit into Germany for refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa but has absorbed a similar number of asylum seekers relative to its much smaller population.

It has angered other European Union states by setting a cap on the number of asylum seekers it accepts - a step Brussels said was unlawful.


Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-migrants-austria-idUKKCN0WL0RK?rpc=401



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Robert Lugar, taking a stand against immigrants, a stand for hatred. [/center]
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Austrian politician under fire for comparing refugees to Neanderthals (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2016 OP
I think actually, Austrians would have the highest % of Neanderthal DNA, Mr. Bigot Lugar. Sunlei Mar 2016 #1
Post removed Post removed Mar 2016 #2
Lugar seemed to be angry... Thespian2 Mar 2016 #3
Agreed. JDPriestly Mar 2016 #4
Ancestry aside, he's cognitively lacking. Hortensis Mar 2016 #7
Reuters chose to mistranslate the worst part of his quote zwielicht Mar 2016 #5
Thank you! sofa king Mar 2016 #6
Oh, my! Unquestionably evil-inciting. Ausgerottet: Hortensis Mar 2016 #8
So creepy. The only way someone can catch them is to be fluent! So sleazy, so dishonest. n/t Judi Lynn Mar 2016 #10
"chairman of the right-wing Team Stronach party". To the surprise of no one. pampango Mar 2016 #9

Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
3. Lugar seemed to be angry...
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 10:49 PM
Mar 2016

However, homo sapiens and neanderthals mated thousands of years ago, so we all have bits of neanderthal dna in our make-up...

Should have kept his mouth closed...

zwielicht

(134 posts)
5. Reuters chose to mistranslate the worst part of his quote
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 10:36 AM
Mar 2016

I've got a bad feeling this was intentional to change the spin and emotional response:

He said "the Neanderthals who we eradicated" (or "killed off", "exterminated" - in German: "ausgerottet&quot - and not "who had been extinct"


Denn die meisten, die kommen, sind ungebildet, sind religiös verblendet, sind fanatisch, nicht integrierbar und haben ein Weltbild wie die Neandertaler, wo man die Frauenrechte mit Füßen tritt. Und dass die Grünen sich für solche Spezies einsetzen, ist für mich wirklich eine Katastrophe, denn normalerweise haben die Grünen immer die Frauenrechte hochgehalten, und jetzt holen sie genau solche Neandertaler herein, die wir bei uns Gott sei Dank ausgerottet haben, die die Frauenrechte mit Füßen treten."

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Oh, my! Unquestionably evil-inciting. Ausgerottet:
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 03:45 PM
Mar 2016

eradicated {adj} {past-p} [killed]
exterminated {adj} {past-p}zool.
extirpated {adj} {past-p}
liquidated {adj} {past-p}
stamped out {adj} {past-p} [eradicated]

durch Jagd ausgerottet
hunted into extinction {adj}

Reuters' translation: "Now we bring such Neanderthals here who thank God had been extinct in our country," he said."

Thank you, Zwielicht, for a significant enlightenment on both this conservative politician's quote and Reuters' extremely questionable distortion of it.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
9. "chairman of the right-wing Team Stronach party". To the surprise of no one.
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 07:31 PM
Mar 2016

Sounds like Austria has its own Trump.

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