The ridge between the targeted provocation and clumsy stupidity is often a very narrow one. The recent statements by the basketball icon Stefan Kretzschmar on the topic of freedom of expression in General and freedom of expression in Sport in the Special show.
The Pro athlete would say nowadays hardly any political or social issues, because you would get for every critical comment instantly “beat them up”, says Kretzschmar, in an Interview with t-online.de. So far, So comprehensible. The desire for Mature athletes is a widespread.
“Nobody’s gonna put the head higher out of it than he has to”
What says a flaming appeal for more courage and a more courageous Expression could be drifting but then completely in a wrong direction: “No one puts the head higher than he needs to because he is afraid, to get immediately on the cover”, Kretzschmar. And further: “unless There is the political Mainstream opinion.”
An example of “Mainstream,” the former professional from the SC Magdeburg is also the Council of Europe: tolerance for Refugees and the Insertion of a colorful society. A “somewhat critical opinion, social or critical of the government”, should not you say “in this country”. Kretzschmar Says. Because there is in this country, “no freedom of speech” in the “strict sense”.
Now you need to know that Stefan Kretzschmar rubs me the wrong way and aware and provoked, in order to generate more attention for certain topics and his Sport. You have these statements but also as the classified for what they are: wrong and dangerous. Because it is important that athletes and coaches take a clear position on issues that are for Kretzschmar “Mainstream” – and a public against wind vibrations.
So, Christian Streich, the coach of the Bundesliga club SC Freiburg, for example, represents, again and again, clear positions for tolerance and against racism. The German Basketball national team started last autumn, a Video on the topic of #weare more, by working for a colorful Germany.
Kretzschmar devalues the importance of tolerance in these times, where more and more people dare to open, right positions. So, the AfD Heidelberg, for example, not to need kretzsch Mars statements for their purposes.
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Also, Stefan Kretzschmar fails to recognize that athletes may just represented in Germany, very critical, and perhaps not necessarily consensus opinions. You have every right to. You have to reckon also with a corresponding Echo. Because freedom of expression does not stop at a single statement, you are allowed to form but also to a opinion is a opinion and you Express. That’s how it goes “in this country”. Fortunately.
