\u2018Learn Some Manners\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\nAccording to Ai, the cashier informed him that he should say \u201cplease,\u201d which irked the Chinese dissident.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens if I don\u2019t?\u201d Ai asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re in Europe, you know,\u201d the clerk replied, clearly unaware who he was addressing. \u201cYou should learn some manners.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Ai questioned the cashier\u2019s own manners, he was told, resentfully: \u201cDon\u2019t forget that I\u2019m feeding you!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a Nazi attitude and a racist comment,\u201d Ai said, according to the NYT<\/em> article.<\/p>\nAi said he complained to the casino manager, who eventually offered an apology, and the artist thought that was the end of it.<\/p>\n
Worst Insult<\/strong><\/h2>\nApparently not, but does the outraged casino worker have a case?<\/p>\n
Germany has outlawed the glorification of Nazism — which means that proffering a Nazi salute will put you behind bars — but there is no law that explicitly forbids calling someone a Nazi.<\/p>\n
However, under paragraph 185 of the German penal code, slander is a criminal offense, and the definition is broader than in the US.<\/p>\n
In Germany, simply “hurting someone’s honor” could be illegal, and that can include insults that would generally be protected by freedom of speech laws in America.<\/p>\n
Law professor Manfred Heinrich of Kiel University\u00a0told DW.com<\/em> recently that calling someone a Nazi in Germany is perhaps the worst insult of all, because it implies \u201cunscrupulous acts of barbarism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei \u2013 the renowned artist and perhaps the West\u2019s most celebrated Chinese dissident \u2013 is being sued by a worker at Spielbank Berlin (Casino Berlin), whom he accused of \u201cNazi thinking.\u201d The news comes directly from the horse\u2019s mouth \u2013 via an op-ed on cultural differences and ethnic prejudice, authored by Ai, in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":124453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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