As the Green group in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district assembly (BVV), we work together with our partners in the SPD and FDP voting alliance for local politics that is socially just, sustainable and makes our neighbourhoods good places to live. Many of our motions come from concrete needs in the neighbourhood, and this one is no exception:

The district assembly is asked to resolve:

The district office is requested to apply to the Federal Agency for the Protection of Children and Young Persons in the Media (BzKJ) to have the songs “WW3” and “Heil Hitler” by Ye (Kanye West) placed on its index. Alternatively, the district office is requested to inform the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (mabb) that the tracks are available on streaming platforms and to ask the responsible bodies to review them under youth media protection law.

Rationale:

The tracks in question, which are available on social media (including X/Twitter) and on streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music and Soundcloud, contain a considerable amount of content that is harmful to young people and hostile to the constitution. The songs glorify antisemitism, openly profess National Socialist ideology and trivialise Nazi symbols. Examples from the lyrics: “I‘m anti-semitic fully”, “Rocking Swastikas ‘cause all my n*ggas Nazis”, “Reading Mein Kampf, two chapters before I go to sleep”, “Heil Hitler”. Spreading Nazi glorification and hatred of Jews like this has no place in freely accessible media. A prompt review and indexing are needed to protect children and young people.