Sarah-Lee Heinrich receives death threats: The merciless online world

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BerlinGrowing up on the Internet is not as fun as the term “digital natives” would lead us to believe. This term refers to all those who are on WhatsApp, Snapchat and Instagram from elementary school age. The new spokeswoman for the Green Youth, Sarah-Lee Heinrich, is one of them.

The 20-year-old already spoke up quite loudly as a teen. With formulations that are not always sympathetic, sometimes quite caustic. With all that you read there, one can only hope that the young Green has made a very significant development in the last five or six years. Not every 14-year-old replies to a swastika tweet with “Heil”.

Unfortunately, some of these statements appeared as screenshots on Twitter immediately after their election to the head of the Green Youth. Unfortunately, because it is apparently not very clear even for digital natives that the Internet forgets nothing. Unless you delete it thoroughly. Sarah-Lee Heinrich obviously didn’t do that. This shows that the idea of ​​making oneself vulnerable as soon as one is in public is not yet very well developed among the Green Youth. You can react to it how you want, but you should know.

Sarah-Lee Heinrich has reaped a veritable shit storm. That would be reasonably okay, because in addition to the many attacks, she has also received many solidarity addresses that backed her and pointed out that the stupid statements were made by a young person and that not everyone is born immediately as a balanced professional politician. Next subject please.

Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. The student has now withdrawn from the public for the time being. She does not answer press inquiries. Instead, the press office of the Green Youth reports that their new spokeswoman has received massive death threats. And then you catch yourself wanting to slap these – certainly anonymous – smack a few of Sarah Lee’s teenage swear words.

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