German Paper: We Must Be “More Gay” To Fight Trump

Pink News reports:

The editor of top German newspaper Die Welt has made a surprising statement saying that Germany should be “more gay” in order to tackle the problem of Donald Trump. As the paper is known for being conservative, the comments in an editorial from the paper’s editor in chief Ulf Poschard came as a surprise to some. His comments came in response to controversial comments made by the US President-elect.

He wrote: “We must defend ourselves against Donald Trump and become more courageous, more industrious, more innovative, freer, more open, more gay, more multicultural.” The words quickly were picked up and made into a meme posted on social media. But the online version of the article was edited to include the phrase “more creative”, or “kreativer”, rather than “more gay”, or “schwuleren”.

German activists have slammed the change to “more creative” as an embarrassing surrender to the right wing. If you speak German, the editor defended his initial statement in his responses to the tweet below.

Wir müssen uns gegen Donald Trump wehren! https://t.co/pWxMcwzTZy pic.twitter.com/35cWldUGnY

— WELT (@welt) January 16, 2017