German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/216, pp.
27218-27219.
Right honorable Herr President. Right honorable ladies and
gentlemen.
As in each year, World Women’s Day offers an occasion to
draw up a balance. What has changed for women and girls in Germany, what for
the good and what for the bad? The Corona crisis, like so many previous
crises, wars, and natural catastrophes, has shown that women are irreplaceable
contributors [Leistungsträger]. If
the left side is listened to, Corona has led to a reversion to old role models,
which is an unbearable devaluation of the performance of women and mothers in
Germany.
Exactly the opposite is the case. Women are the heroes of
Corona. Not only in the system relevant occupations, for example, hospitals,
care facilities, kindergartens and food service, do they have their woman. They
have also managed to bear the double burden of caring for their children and the
occupational activity. They and not the government have kept this country in
the running, and indeed together with excellent men and fathers. This is a
master performance by the women, men and families in Germany and most certainly
is no reversion to old role models.
Katja Mast (SPD): You have not understood it!
As a catastrophic relapse into old times must much more be
designated the loss of women’s freedoms in Germany, freedoms which were
previously fought for through hundreds of years: The freedom to be at anytime
able to stop in any chosen part of town without male accompaniment, to be able
to go jogging alone, to be able to dress as one wants and not like veiled little
girls; the freedom to be able to choose a husband, not to be compelled to marry
or to share him with x number of wives; the freedom from being delivered over
to the domestic violence of a tyrannical patriarch; the freedom to decide
whether and which occupation one wants to enter into; whether one earns one’s
own living or whether one is allowed out of the house only to go shopping accompanied
by men as an unpaid, full-time, veiled servant.
That these freedoms of women in the 21st Century
are endangered lies in your policy of unlimited migration from archaic cultural
circles. By means of your politically correct, cultural sensible silences you
make yourselves complicit – complicit in that these freedoms and rights of
German women, hard fought for through the centuries, are endangered. Coming generations
will most certainly not exult over your policy. Yet instead of concerning
yourselves with the real problems of women in Germany, you even in 2020 prefer
to conduct phantom debates: Debates on the gender-correct despoliation of the
German language, on unisex bathrooms, and ever again the tiresome topic of
women’s quotas. You there make victims of women where they absolutely are not,
and you are ominously silent where they increasingly become victims. And in a
way I can even understand that, because otherwise you would lose your
livelihood’s justification, because your leftist Utopia would collapse upon
itself like a house of cards – the Utopia in which the fight for women’s rights
is compatible with the fight for mass immigration. Feminist multiculturalism,
that is like a vegetarian slaughterhouse: Far from every reality of life.
Instead, you should recall the true meaning of World Women’s Day, the good and true fight of authentic women’s rights advocates and the result of those struggles: Freedom, protection from violence, equal justice. In 21st Century Germany, you unfortunately have enough to do with that; for all of that is at risk as a consequence of the mass immigration demanded by you. Therefore, finally open your eyes to the real problems of women in Germany, and conduct yourselves accordingly.
Many thanks.
Kerstin
Kassner (Linke): Was that just satire, or seriously meant?
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