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German LGBTI activists under fire after homphobic couple lose their jobs
A German LGBTI activist group is facing criticism for highlighting a couple’s homophobic Facebook posts, causing them to lose their jobs.
Enough is Enough – Open your mouth!, one of Germany’s biggest networks of LGBTI activists, posted screenshots of comments Sara Kubicki and her boyfriend made in an open Facebook group.
‘Homosexual people should be killed. It’s so digusting,’ Kubicki wrote; the activists discovered the post and encouraged their community to report Kubicki to Facebook.
The group also filed charges of demagoguery against the trainee geriatric nurse and contacted her employer, a nursing service that is part of the Senterra AG; Kubicki was dismissed without notice.
Her boyfriend, Max Hellmann, also posted homophobic and racist content on the social network, with one of his comments reading: ‘I keep a tally of my murders as if I was Adolf Hitler, I bash children and gays and I don’t give a shit of what you think about me, I think my behavior should be celebrated.’
After being alerted to what their employee posted, Hellmann’s employer – Zalando – terminated his contract three weeks after he started a trainee program.
Now the group is facing increasing criticism from politicians and the public.
‘Lesbians and gay men have had to live with openly expressed hatred, insults and even murder threats from social networks for a long time,’ said Johannes Kahrs, the German Social Democratic Party’s representative for lesbians and gay men.
‘We, as a society, are required to find ways to deal with such tendencies. A witch hunt by private activists, including the publication of offenders’ names, as it recently was revealed to a broader public, cannot be the right answer.’
But Kahrs also criticized Facebook, saying it was incomprehensible why hate speech is not, or only half-heartedly, deleted although the social network’s terms and conditions explicitly ban them.
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Stefanie Gerdes
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