{"id":2301,"date":"2026-02-12T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/?page_id=2301"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:48:02","slug":"zitate-wir-koennten-deutsche-ohne-migrationshintergrund-kartoffeln-nennen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/zitate-wir-koennten-deutsche-ohne-migrationshintergrund-kartoffeln-nennen\/","title":{"rendered":"We could call Germans without a migration background potatoes."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 Ferda Ataman, Federal Government Commissioner for Anti-Discrimination (paraphrased)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quote is often shortened in public debate. In substance, it refers to the question of how the majority society is linguistically labeled and what effect such terms have. Viewed critically, the wording shows how deliberately provocative terms can be used to make social power dynamics visible or to reinterpret them. At the same time, the controversy highlights how sensitively issues of identity, belonging, and political language are discussed in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2190 <a href=\"http:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/gegner-zitate\/\">To the overview of opponent quotes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wir k\u00f6nnten Deutsche ohne Migrationshintergrund ja Kartoffeln nennen (Ferda Ataman sinngem\u00e4\u00df)\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OZ9dxqxUCGY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 Ferda Ataman, Bundesbeauftragte f\u00fcr Antidiskriminierung (sinngem\u00e4\u00df) Das Zitat wird in der \u00f6ffentlichen Debatte h\u00e4ufig verk\u00fcrzt wiedergegeben. Inhaltlich verweist es auf die Frage, wie Mehrheitsgesellschaft sprachlich markiert wird und welche Wirkung solche Begriffe entfalten. Kritisch betrachtet zeigt die Formulierung, wie bewusst provokative Begriffe eingesetzt werden k\u00f6nnen, um gesellschaftliche Machtverh\u00e4ltnisse sichtbar zu machen oder umzudeuten. Zugleich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2302,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-2301","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2995,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2301\/revisions\/2995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlas.army\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}