{"id":290584,"date":"2017-01-18T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/top-german-paper-we-need-to-be-more-gay-more-multicultural-to-oppose-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T14:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:22:01","slug":"top-german-paper-we-need-to-be-more-gay-more-multicultural-to-oppose-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/top-german-paper-we-need-to-be-more-gay-more-multicultural-to-oppose-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Top German Paper: We Need To Be \u2018More Gay, More Multicultural\u2019 To Oppose Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>In a new editorial, the head of the German\u00a0daily broadsheet <em>Die Welt<\/em> has called on Germans to oppose U.S. President-elect Donald Trump by being more multicultural and more \u201cgay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head of <em>Die Welt <\/em>Ulf Poschardt wrote a combative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welt.de\/debatte\/kommentare\/article161207751\/Soll-er-doch-Er-kann-uns-mal.html\" target=\"_blank\">editorial<\/a>\u00a0in response to an interview Mr. Trump did with the <em>Bild<\/em> tabloid on Monday. The highly negative reaction from many online forced the paper into changing the world \u201cschwuler\u201d or gay to \u201d more creative\u201d after hundreds of comments were made on the paper\u2019s website and over one thousand more on their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/welt\/photos\/a.298879548114.181606.97515118114\/10155088573708115\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the editorial, Mr. Poschardt claims that Germans need to oppose Donald\u00a0Trump because he threatens the system of globalisation he says has greatly benefited Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChancellor Angela Merkel and her Cabinet have been right to promote, popularize, and engage in global politics in tough diplomatic struggle,\u201d he wrote, saying that it was good for Germans when neo-liberal globalisation ideas were spread across the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe distribution of global prosperity will, in the future, be aggressively decided by the US in its favor \u2013 if we do not resist and become better, more courageous, more diligent, innovative, free, open, gay and multicultural,\u201d he wrote initially with gay being replaced with \u201ccreative\u201d after the torrent of comments online.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook user Kirsten Zander slammed the editorial saying, \u201cWhy this martial rhetoric? To defend ourselves against the US president. Did he declare war on us?&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/top-german-paper-we-need-to-be-more-gay-more-multicultural-to-oppose-trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new editorial, the head of the German\u00a0daily broadsheet Die Welt has called on Germans to oppose U.S. President-elect Donald Trump by being more multicultural and more \u201cgay.\u201d Head of Die Welt Ulf Poschardt wrote a combative editorial\u00a0in response to an interview Mr. Trump did with the Bild tabloid on Monday. The highly negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}