{"id":292464,"date":"2016-08-29T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=292464"},"modified":"2021-01-15T17:29:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T22:29:24","slug":"germanys-sigmar-gabriel-defends-middle-finger-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/germanys-sigmar-gabriel-defends-middle-finger-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s Sigmar Gabriel defends middle finger gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Which planet is that where some mainstream media blur a finger!!! A FINGER! Wake up, it\u2019s nothing sexual: it\u2019s a finger!!! Blurring nipples is already difficult to accept\u2026 but a finger! So, showing the thumb up is okay, and the index to show the sky also, but the middle finger, no\u2026 What a terrible digital (digit) discrimination lol\u2026Where will the political correctness stop? Will they start blurring cows udder? Tongues? Eyes blinking?<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s economy minister and vice-chancellor has defended flicking the middle finger to a group of right-wing protesters earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Sigmar Gabriel, who is Angela Merkel&#8217;s second-in-command, said his only mistake was not using both hands.<\/p>\n<p>He said his critics should think about what they would do if faced with 12 &#8220;young, aggressive, swearing and ready-for-violence Nazis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gabriel was confronted by the hecklers in northern Germany.<\/p>\n<p>They called him a traitor of the people and mentioned his father&#8217;s Nazi past.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gabriel has spoken openly of his father Walter, who he says was a supporter of Hitler&#8217;s Nazi party and denied the Holocaust until his death in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In a video released on social media of the incident, one of the protesters can be heard shouting: &#8220;Your father loved his country. And what are you doing? You&#8217;re ruining it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the time, his political party the Social Democratic Party (SPD) called it an &#8220;emotional reaction&#8221; and released a statement saying: &#8220;Obviously Sigmar Gabriel does not regard that gesture to be an appropriate form of everyday communication, but communication was not possible with bellowing neo-Nazis who were clearly prepared to use violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-37209582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-37209582<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Which planet is that where some mainstream media blur a finger!!! A FINGER! Wake up, it\u2019s nothing sexual: it\u2019s a finger!!! Blurring nipples is already difficult to accept\u2026 but a finger! So, showing the thumb up is okay, and the index to show the sky also, but the middle finger, no\u2026 What a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":292465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}