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]
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Response to Judi Lynn (Original post)
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Thespian2
(2,741 posts)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...
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Someone should grab a little of Lugar's DNA and find out what ancestry he really has.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Also morally.
zwielicht
(134 posts)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" - 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."
sofa king
(10,857 posts)That's a creepy quote, and also backwards, I think.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)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.
Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)Sounds like Austria has its own Trump.