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They Don’t Want Any Dialogue – The Refusal to Talk by the Alliance for Diversity and Democracy and Mr. Marcus NierthOn February 11, 2024, Markus Nierth gave a moving speech at a "Demonstration Against the Right" in Zeitz. However, when I tried to get him for a video interview, there was complete silence on his part. The response from the "Alliance for Diversity and Democracy" on March 5, 2024 not only reveals a refusal to engage in dialogue but also raises questions about their self-perception and commitment to diversity and democracy. Learn more about the background of this refusal to communicate and the contradictions in their claimed pursuit of openness and diversity. On February 11, a "Demonstration Against the Right" took place in Zeitz, where, in addition to Mayor Christian Thieme and District Administrator Götz Ulrich, Markus Nierth also spoke. Wikipedia states about Markus Nierth: Markus Nierth is a German Protestant theologian, funeral speaker, and lecturer on socio-political topics, who gained nationwide recognition in connection with conflicts surrounding a refugee accommodation in Tröglitz and the subsequent political debates. (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Nierth) Regarding the above-mentioned demonstration and Markus Nierth, it says on https://www.kirchenkreis-naumburg-zeitz.de/service/nachrichten/demo-gegen-rechts-in-zeitz.html: “He appealed to the participants of the demonstration not to condemn people with opposing views, but to approach them with mercy and perhaps engage in conversation with one or two, listening to their frustration, anger, and grief, so their hearts could make room for mercy again.” I subsequently tried via Facebook and email to get Markus Nierth for a video interview. According to the organizers, the above-mentioned demonstration was directed against “right-wing extremism and hostility to democracy.” Positions that both I and many other initiators of Bürgerstimme share and can immediately endorse. However, there was no sign of life from Mr. Nierth, no reaction at all. Nothing! Silence in the forest. On March 3, I wrote an email to the organizers of the above-mentioned demo, the “Alliance for Diversity and Democracy,” with the following wording: Hello and good day! I would like to start a dialogue this way with a representative of the Alliance for Diversity and Democracy and also with Markus Nierth. We would like to record a video interview, in which you can, of course, present your views uncensored and talk together about democracy and so on. I would appreciate a timely reply. If you do not wish for a dialogue, please let me know the reasons for this. Kind regards! Michael Thurm https://buergerstimme.net The response came on March 5, 2024, with this wording: Dear Michael Thurm, Thank you for your inquiry. At the same time, we decline a video interview with the platform you are responsible for. We are happy to share the reasons: Basically, we do not consider your "Bürgerstimme" to be a trustworthy medium either formally or in content. Formally, we take issue with the legal form as a British Limited company and the location of your media company in London, the call for donations to your private account instead of an imprint, and the absence of a responsible party as defined by press law. Content-wise, our alliance cannot identify with the intrusive design of many of your articles as well as their thematic and perspectival one-sidedness. On your website, there are currently 75 video articles linked (as of 04.03.2024, 8 a.m.). Nine of your articles either in the headline or lead refer to Zeitz. In these videos, you almost exclusively report on so-called "Monday demonstrations," apparently not from a neutral journalistic perspective, but from the perspective of an organ of those Monday demonstrators. One video article related to Zeitz is not about a Monday demonstration, but about a "protest convoy with the farmers and the demonstration 'Never Again Is Now!' in Zeitz on February 11, 2024." It reports on our rally "Never Again Is Now" not equally but tendentiously from the viewpoint of a counter-demonstrator. Our Alliance for Diversity and Democracy Zeitz is interested in dialogue and cooperation among people who commit themselves to a free democratic basic order and human rights, namely for the rights of all people! We do not expect to reach many such people through the medium "Die Bürgerstimme" and therefore do not agree to a video interview. We ask that further inquiries be refrained from. Kind regards Zeitz Alliance for Diversity and Democracy In short: They don’t want any dialogue! Analytically: The alliance regards buergerstimme.net as an untrustworthy medium. However, I cannot see from Mr. Nierth’s appeal that one should only speak to “trustworthy” people or media. The issue with the imprint is a decision made by the website operator. That should not be a reason to refuse dialogue if one truly wants one. In the alliance’s reply email above, no name, no contact details, no responsible person was named either. Who wrote the email remains unclear. The alliance has no website. There is only a Facebook profile with very little content and one email address. Who is behind the alliance is nowhere to be found (see https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068824316220). So the alliance sets a standard for others that it itself does not want to meet. Buergerstimme.net is also accused of “one-sidedness.” However, this could be said about other media as well, including the Alliance for Diversity and Democracy, simply due to their refusal to engage in dialogue. Such “one-sidedness” could especially be countered by one or more interviews. That was one of the reasons for the interview request. The goal of buergerstimme.net is to allow citizens to show their perspective — from their viewpoint, which can sometimes be subjectively tinted. When I read articles in “trustworthy media” filled with framing terms, one also finds one-sidedness there again and again. In any case, buergerstimme.net is meant to be from citizens for citizens, from people for people. Isn’t that what the “Alliance for Diversity and Democracy” also claims to want? A conversation with Mr. Nierth or a member of the alliance could have shed light on this. The initiative “Die Bürgerstimme” was launched at the end of 2021 / beginning of 2022 — by citizens. At the large demonstrations in January 2022, regional politics already proved back then that there was no interest in dialogue. The Alliance for Diversity and Democracy now joins this chorus and contradicts itself with the statement: “Our Alliance for Diversity and Democracy Zeitz is interested in dialogue and cooperation among people who commit themselves to a free democratic basic order and human rights, namely for the rights of all people!” This can also be interpreted as the alliance believing that I and other Bürgerstimme comrades do not stand for a free democratic basic order and human rights. Thus, there is a bias on the part of the Alliance for Diversity. This too could be unequivocally refuted by an open conversation. The alliance further writes: “We do not expect to reach many such people through the medium 'Die Bürgerstimme' and therefore do not agree to a video interview.” I interpret this to mean that the alliance is only interested in reaching like-minded people. They are not interested in talking to people with different opinions. They want to stay in their bubble and refuse contact and exchange with dissenters. I see no striving for diversity and democracy in this. Marcus Runge criticized the demo and speeches at the Merseburg demo on March 10, 2024 (http://buergerstimme.net/artikel.php?id=83&info=Keiner_von_uns_will_kriegstuechtig_werden). I also invited him for an interview. He replied, “Why should I give your babble a stage? Why should I justify myself in a video on your platform for anything?” Well, he wouldn’t be giving us a stage but we him. And he wouldn’t have to justify himself but could share his view and engage in exchange with us. He declined. Christian Pagel commented: “Anyone who once appears on the pages of the confused lateral thinkers is burned for any discussions, not to mention reputation and credibility.” Similar comments can be heard here and there and can thus be considered the key to the mystery. Those who call themselves tolerant, preach diversity, demand dialogue, and march for the “rescue of democracy” do not tolerate if someone from their own ranks talks with those who have been framed as whatever. Then comes hitting, stabbing, and bashing to exclude those who dare to speak with dissenters and critics from their own ranks. The “Alliance for Diversity and Democracy” has called for another demonstration on March 17, 2024 at 3 p.m. in Zeitz. The motto of the rally is “We Are the Firewall!” — yet another expression of shutting oneself off (from others). If speakers at this demonstration again feel tempted to call for dialogue with people on the other side of the “firewall,” it would, in my opinion, be advisable to also clearly state with whom and for what reasons the conversation is absolutely refused and why such a refusal is still compatible with the pursuit of “diversity and democracy.” buergerstimme.net does not see itself as a firewall. Diversity and democracy are important. This obviously includes conversation and dialogue. You don’t have to share the other person’s opinion. You can be completely of a different opinion. Conversations can naturally end with the realization that one remains at odds on many issues. That is diversity and democracy. One or more interviews can be recorded and published at any time with comrades of the alliance. There is also the possibility for every citizen as well as the friends of firewalls and isolation to submit their views in writing so that they can be published on buergerstimme.net. Author: AI-Translation - Michael Thurm | vor dem 01.07.2024 |
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