Klaus Emmerich (journalist)

Klaus Emmerich (born 1928) is the former editor-in-chief of ORF News in Austria.[1] He achieved notoriety in the United States for his racist remarks following Barack Obama's win of the 2008 US presidential election.[2] David F. Girard-diCarlo, U.S. ambassador to Austria, officially protested against Emmerich’s remarks on November 14, 2008.[3][4]

Quotes

"I don't want to be steered by a black man in the Western world. If you say that that is a racist remark: right, without doubt."[1]

"[I]t is a most unsettling development as the blacks are not as advanced in their political & social development."[1]

gollark: ++tel init_webhook
gollark: Also notable is that apparently floating point inaccuracies in the neural network make the hashes turn out differently on different devices. Yet the cryptographic system doing the matches is only able to do *exact* matches, not hamming distance or something.
gollark: That wouldn't stop this sort of attack from working.
gollark: There are other possible uses, though. Someone with illegal material could just set the hash to some random value without making the image look particularly weird.
gollark: Maybe something something adverserial image scaling, if it's implemented poorly.

References
  1. Scally, Derek (22 November 2008). "Austrian station distances itself from journalist's 'blacks not civilised' remarks". Irish Times. Retrieved 2008-11-22.
  2. "Austrian Journalist Slammed for Racist Obama Rant". Der Spiegel. 2008-11-07. Retrieved 2008-12-24.
  3. "USA attack broadcaster because of racism (USA attackieren Sender wegen Rassismus)". Der Spiegel (in German). 2008-11-16. Retrieved 2008-12-24.
  4. Girard-diCarlo, David F. (2008-11-14). "Open letter by U.S. Ambassador David Girard-diCarlo to the Director General of the ORF, Dr. Alexander Wrabetz" (PDF). U.S. Embassy Vienna. Retrieved 2008-12-22.
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