Following the resignation of Andrea Nahles Kevin is ashamed Kühnert publicly for his party. He is one of the many a deeply private feeling of to understand the public miss.

By Theresa Hein Theresa Hein

Theresa Hein, born in 1990 in Munich, has decided to brief interruptions to other places of residence, the city and sit it out until it is again adorable. Studied comparative literature in Munich and London, the German school of journalism journalists trained, and since 2019, editor in the Department of culture and the media. Speaking of things you like, in exaggerated Form, and can also be difficult to persuade. Example: The absolute best end to the greatest film ever made, is the “Smoke” (1995) by Paul Auster and Wayne Wang.

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In days, the consensus run otherwise rather free, seem to be able to relatively a lot of people on a course of action few: If you are ashamed of something, then do it publicly. The sentence “I am ashamed” comment on politicians in public Speeches, talk shows or on Social Media. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, was not ashamed publicly for Expressions of AfD politicians Cem Özdemir for the refugee policy of the Federal government, Horst Seehofer has already been advised more often, he should be ashamed of themselves, especially people who are ashamed of themselves for Horst Seehofer. On Sunday tweeted Kevin Kühnert after the announcement of the resignation of Andrea Nahles, “I am ashamed”, and complained about the behavior of his SPD.

“I’m ashamed” – this sounds modest, humble, maybe even. A set of such as a little bow in front of the object in question.

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in fact, says this type of shame, but far more about the Person who is committed to her, than about the authenticity of the Emotion. Shame in the public discourse is no more than a note on the own intact Moral. Who is ashamed and the other communicates, is incontestable, because he decorated with a human experience.The public “I am ashamed” is about jewelry, not more to the feeling that each man knows: the set, if someone else learns something that one would prefer to keep for themselves. The assails, when confronted with an unpleasant truth. The spreads in the stomach, if one has failed. The on all sides communicated in shame from public life has nothing Reflexive in itself. It is merely a call for the exhibition of their own, a moral error-free system: I’m ashamed, therefore I am.

In the Bible, Adam’s hiding from God, because he is aware that he is naked. He wants to be alone with the new feeling, he’s holed up. Even if Adam had a Twitter account, it would not come to him, presumably, in the mind, to report his two followers. Precisely because shame is not a pretty, not a pride, but a deeply uncomfortable feeling. Shame makes you vulnerable. You gets no Likes.