tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099363488280675328.post8522638783234139384..comments2023-10-06T04:49:05.127-04:00Comments on KrautBlog: Words of the month: Sippenhaft, SippenhaftungUlrichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099363488280675328.post-45784007969481474102014-04-25T11:02:00.337-04:002014-04-25T11:02:00.337-04:00Here's another recent example of the type of S...Here's another recent example of the type of <i>Sippenhaft</i> I'm talking about: On April 4, the prize-winning German photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus was shot and killed in Afghanistan by a police officer (!) who explained that he wanted to avenge the bombing of his village by NATO forces. In other words, in his view, every citizen of a NATO member country can be held responsible for any act performed by NATO, no matter if that person did or did not approve of the act, or even know about it. This is as grotesque as it is real!Ulrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3099363488280675328.post-75352823079733005872013-07-10T18:24:13.450-04:002013-07-10T18:24:13.450-04:00Here's an article that illustrates a particul...Here's <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/02/1220435/-God-caused-the-Colorado-wildfires-because-women-wear-pants-have-breasts?detail=email" rel="nofollow"> an article</a> that illustrates a particularly absurd version of the extended concept of <i>Sippenhaft</i> my post talks about: Tele-evangelists seek to explain, as a matter of course, every disaster that hits a community by the ways in which this community—supposedly—has offended God. In other words, their God holds <b>all</b> people living in a certain area responsible for everything <b>some</b> people in the area (may) have done, where the 'sin' consists always of one of the old bugaboos of the extreme right, most often homosexuality or—horror of horrors!—women wearing pant suits (as explained in the linked article). It does not get crazier than this!Ulrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.com