The hashtag made it to the news service Twitter
In their posts, numerous users made fun of two short video snippets from current WDR programs in which the moderators apparently wanted to speak gender-correctly recently, and local media such as “Der Westen” also took up the topic.
One of the stumbling blocks was moderator Stefan Fuckert, who reported on the forest fires in the “WDR Lokalzeit” from South Westphalia at the beginning of the week and invited fire chief Lisa Petri, who is actually a nurse by profession.
Fuckert literally said in the article, which is now also circulating on the Internet as a short video snippet: “She did her training on a voluntary basis alongside her actual job and it is really fulfilling. intensive care nurse”.
Criticism came, among other things, from the Association for German Language, which provocatively asked on Twitter: “Hey WDR, what is an intensive care nurse?”. The fact that the term was probably not a slip of the tongue became clear as the show progressed, when the moderator used the term a second time.
“Is it even stupider”, critics then asked online, “You don’t have them all anymore”, it was also said on Twitter or: “Gender delusion eats away at the brain”. Other writers, on the other hand, advocated taking a relaxed look at the case: “Those were the days when you could make a mistake on TV, and EVERYONE just laughed.”
However, very few succeeded, because resourceful Twitter users had also tracked down a second TV snippet in which another WDR presenter used the term.
This was just a slip of the tongue, which could happen in a live broadcast, the WDR then explained to the Twitter user.
The broadcaster did not comment on the Fuckert case until Saturday afternoon, and the moderator himself (active on Instagram, among other things) has not yet publicly commented.
