A German journalist suggested that prosecuting \u201cFacebook rabble-rousers\u201d – that is people who do not agree with mass immigration – while a step in the right direction, was not enough. <\/p>\n
Reschke delivered her message just hours after Hans-Georg Maassen, head of the intelligence service, branded a right wing group \u201cdangerous rabble-rousers\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese haters have to understand that society will not tolerate this,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, if you are not of the opinion that all refugees are freeloaders who should be hunted down, burned or gassed, then you should make it very clearly known. Speak up against it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anja Reschke ended by calling for a public demonstration in favor of \u201cdecency,\u201d and told viewers that she was looking forward to \u201cyour comments on this commentary.\u201d<\/p>\n
She was not disappointed, as more than five million people watched a video of her remarks posted on Facebook in the first 48 hours after the broadcast, generating thousands of comments, both for and against, and more than 130,000 likes.<\/p>\n
On Twitter, as The Guardian\u2019s Berlin correspondent, Kate Connolly, reported, the replies to Ms. Reschke included outrage from a German-speaker who claimed to be living in England and wrote that it was \u201cBetter to be a Nazi in the street than a foreign social parasite.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same blogger later complained that Germany granted freedom of speech only to those who agreed with the mainstream consensus, branding dissidents as Nazis.<\/p>\n
Most German journalists however backed Reschke.<\/p>\n
Source: NYT\/The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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