Again and again other old white men write to us that they are being discriminated against because they are old, white and men.

They couldn't do anything about that!

And what should they do about it?

We recommend that you consult your pharmacist or urologist first.

Because we don't know of any advice that would immediately remedy such a threefold evil.

Bertolt Kohler

Editor.

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Hardly anything can be changed about age.

Black make-up has long been a thing of the past.

And you can't even dress up as a redskin during carnival.

It would seem safest to us to dare to escape from the musty men's corner in women's clothes.

It used to be tricky to be caught in the wrong clothes, like a Prussian in lederhosen.

Nowadays, all you have to do is mutter something about transgender and you're free to go to the bathroom, even at Oktoberfest.

With a little envy

However, caution should still be exercised when it comes to which hairstyle or wig should help with the transformation into a woman or something else.

The choice of hairstyle can become an extremely hairy affair, as the case of the young white musician Ronja Maltzahn shows.

She wanted to play at a concert for peace and against discrimination, but was invited back by Fridays for Future, local group in Hanover, because she has dreadlocks.

So those tangled strands of hair that we old white men, with some envy, used to hold as a sign of relentless hair growth, refreshing nonconformity, and limitless hashish consumption.

There you can see again that we are rightly hated: I have no idea about anything!

Dreads can be a serious offense

However, what really surprises us, the young musician did not know that it is a serious offense if a white person, regardless of whether m, f or n, wears dreads.

Like blackfacing, this is a form of “cultural appropriation”, which at best shows that one has not yet sufficiently dealt with the very long history of colonialism, racism and the movements fighting against them.

The Fridays for Future movement, local group Hanover, also justified the ban on performing with the fact that “the appearance of a white person in dreadlocks on our stage can give BiPoCs the impression that this movement does not represent a safer space for them”.

Don't know what BiPoCs are?

That says it all about you.

You have lost hops and malt.

However, Fridays for Future, local group in Hanover, believed that the young musician was still capable of purification: she could perform if she first cut off the old braids of a lack of awareness of the problem.

But then it occurred to the young environmental activists that this is also impossible because cutting the felt would be an invasion of the artist's privacy.

The whole thing with no way out, like in a Greek tragedy!

Impenetrable like barbed wire

But there is also something good about this drama: this episode must have a more deterrent effect on Putin, who still has enough informers in Germany, than all of NATO's rapid reaction forces put together.

The Western culture of anti-discrimination, with its pitfalls, can only appear to him like a barbed wire entanglement in which even shaven-headed invaders would become hopelessly entangled.

Seen in this way, it was perhaps a mistake that Macron and Scholz went to Moscow properly combed or freshly polished.

Imagine if they showed up in the Kremlin with dreadlocks!

The term is certainly also translated into Russian as: lure to fear.

For fear of cultural contagion, Putin would not have insisted on just six meters away.

And maybe reconsider the matter of appropriating the Ukraine, this outpost of the West that has gone haywire.