Hi @GermanyDiplo.Your boss @ABaerbock visited the @_AfricanUnion based in one of the more than 20 African countries that Germany enjoys reciprocal diplomatic relations with. Did she come to see animals? Or is the Continent of Africa, its people & wildlife just a joke to you? https://t.co/RkzWsBbBoH
— Ebba Kalondo (@EbbaKalondo) January 25, 2023
Don’t apologise. Just be careful. And respect us as we respect you. Foreign policy is not a joke nor should it be used to score cheap geopolitical points by illustrating an entire Continent with colonial tropes on any issue. Ever.
— Ebba Kalondo (@EbbaKalondo) January 26, 2023
Wow, Germany going hard.
RT:
Germany’s attempt to mock the trip of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Africa has backfired after the African Union chided Berlin over the use of a stereotypical emoji. The criticism prompted Berlin to issue a hasty apology.
On Tuesday, the German Foreign Office tweeted that Lavrov had embarked on a tour of Africa “not to see leopards, but to bluntly claim that Ukraine’s partners ‘want to destroy everything Russian’.” The word ‘leopards’ was depicted in the form of an emoji.
Local officials, including Ebba Kalondo, spokeswoman for African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki, were unimpressed by the pun.
On Thursday, she noted that German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock recently visited the organization, which “is based in one of the more than 20 African countries that Germany enjoys reciprocal diplomatic relations with”.
“Did she come to see animals? Or is the Continent of Africa, its people and wildlife just a joke to you?” she asked.
The rebuke prompted Berlin to backtrack on its comments. “Point taken and sorry. We value our African partners. Our tweet was in no way intended to mean offense,” the ministry wrote. It explained that the leopard emoji referred to the Leopard 2 tanks Berlin recently promised to send Kiev to help it in the conflict with Moscow.
“We wanted to call out the lies that Russia uses to justify its imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine,” it added.
They’re denouncing black people as animals as they prepare to declare war on Russia once again. People are saying “it’s like Hitler,” but Hitler never said mean things to try to hurt the feelings of black people. Hitler was a nice person.
These people running the German government now are just nasty.