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Before the book, Baerbock was in trouble for faking her CV, suggesting qualifications she doesn't really have. I don't know what the last word on that was, thou

Before the book, Baerbock was in trouble for faking her CV, suggesting qualifications she doesn't really have. I don't know what the last word on that was, though. Pointing out the book was not such a big deal then is like pointing to a fake PhD thesis full of quotes, picking out one quote and saying "see, that is not really that bad". Yeah, a single quote is not that bad. It is the sum of them that makes it bad.

bildung 5y ago
> Pointing out the book was not such a big deal then is like pointing to a fake PhD thesis full of quotes, I didn't do that, you mis-inferred that from my post. Funnily enough this is exactly what happened with Baerbocks CV: She didn't "fake" anything there, she e.g. said she studied in Hamburg without saying that she obtained a degree there. And she stated that she was a member of some high profile organisations, which was technically true. In both cases she wasn't lying.
- notanzaiiswear 5y ago
  "I didn't do that, you mis-inferred that from my post." Well you didn't point out that the book was just a small part of the whole story. "She didn't "fake" anything there" Iirc almost every entry on her CV turned out to suggest something that wasn't actually true. I don't know if it was lying or not. I was actually the first who said it is normal to make a CV look good by certain phrasings and so on. (like if you were a stay at home mom, you describe it as "heading a small family business" and so on). I can imagine her problem was that she didn't realize that she is now a candidate for chancellor of Germany, so different standards apply, and rightfully so. It is absolutely OK to scrutinize a person who applies for the highest German office. Also, againk she doesn't face any legal consequences for her "fakes" or whatever you want to call them. It just isn't a good look given that she wants to project an image of highest qualifications and integrity.

bildung 5y ago

> Pointing out the book was not such a big deal then is like pointing to a fake PhD thesis full of quotes, I didn't do that, you mis-inferred that from my post. Funnily enough this is exactly what happened with Baerbocks CV: She didn't "fake" anything there, she e.g. said she studied in Hamburg without saying that she obtained a degree there. And she stated that she was a member of some high profile organisations, which was technically true. In both cases she wasn't lying.

notanzaiiswear 5y ago
"I didn't do that, you mis-inferred that from my post." Well you didn't point out that the book was just a small part of the whole story. "She didn't "fake" anything there" Iirc almost every entry on her CV turned out to suggest something that wasn't actually true. I don't know if it was lying or not. I was actually the first who said it is normal to make a CV look good by certain phrasings and so on. (like if you were a stay at home mom, you describe it as "heading a small family business" and so on). I can imagine her problem was that she didn't realize that she is now a candidate for chancellor of Germany, so different standards apply, and rightfully so. It is absolutely OK to scrutinize a person who applies for the highest German office. Also, againk she doesn't face any legal consequences for her "fakes" or whatever you want to call them. It just isn't a good look given that she wants to project an image of highest qualifications and integrity.