The German cabaret artist Monika Gruber rejected accusations of racism related to his new book and justified the controversial passage as satire in an interview. “I think I was still relatively harmless, given the fact that this lady would like to push everyone who considers knitting their hobby into the right corner, so I have no feeling of injustice in this case,” Gruber told the Augsburger Allgemeine.
In his book “Welcome to the Wrong Movie”, Gruber criticizes a real-name platform user who actively deals with who offers what and who offers offers. This is absurd and the blogger Rome Maria Mukherjee a guardian of virtue, says the book. What a woman with that name does in the textile hobby scene is a mystery; Gruber “probably got her into Shakren's tantric gymnastics or a primal scream vegan seminar.”
Hate messages for poster
Mukherjee then made it public that he found this passage offensive, racist and defamatory – and received a lot of support. Mukherjee, who works as a practice manager in the healthcare sector and was confronted with hateful messages during the debate, also criticized the use of her full name, which was completely surprising to her.
Publisher Piper then emphasized that it did not want to harm anyone personally and that it was working with Gruber and his co-author Andreas Hock exchange ideas on how the passage of the audio and e-book, as well as the printed book, could be changed. The 52-year-old Gruber, on the other hand, emphasized in the Augsburger Allgemeine that the allegations were “without any foundation”. She calmly awaits a legal dispute. “Anyone who speaks publicly about social issues must also accept that these statements will be treated in a satirical manner.”