The man sat with his son in the Tram and spoke with an older Couple, maybe it was his neighbors. He was good-looking, the Curls of grey, he would probably be one of those men who can carry 60 Converse sneakers. The man discussed with the older Couple about the school system and the happiness to have children, if you are born in Switzerland. He explained how the school serves children lunch and what is the cost. Then he said, the socially Weak, who would have to pay less, beautiful. In General, he said, the city will do as much for the social Weak, really was. I thought about the sentence. There was something.
As a father was blessed, probably with all the privileges of the Swiss SMEs-existence, and he found it good if the state doesn’t take care of those that have this happiness. Nothing can be bad. But the way he said, irritated. The Socially Vulnerable. The man used this sterile term that sounds like a social worker-Protocol and not according to the mothers, who must bring their children alone, after missed Skilagern, because the money is missing, Twelve-hour days, not enough to live on. To speak of the socially Weak rather than of poor people, that sounds very politically correct. Only after the second Listen, it is striking that the term gives off a little Patronizing. You down there and I up here. Who uses it, creates a distance, as it would be an exotic people, and not by those who shop in the same Migros, in school, in addition to your own child seats. The discomfort that poverty also exists next to our doorstep, nicely packaged in a benevolent formulation. Which sounds harmless, is easier to bear.
in addition, the term language is wrong: he Who has no money, is no less capable in a society. A lower account balance means economic weakness, social weakness. In Germany the term is therefore regarded as politically incorrect, the national poverty conference, explained to him in 2013 for the non-word. In the “mirror” said the German linguist Elisabeth Wehling, a few months ago, the language in which we conduct our public debates that reveal ideological patterns of thinking, “such as when terms are used like “social”, to describe the financially ill-posed people, although it is not describes, basically, a Person who pays attention to others – for example, someone who is out of his tax responsibility.”
language is the window through which we see the world. The man and his son in the Tram had brought me at least to open a new window. I would have told him. But since he was already gone.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 21.01.2019, 17:38 PM
