[Skybird]

I must agree with August, it is a reaction overdone. I do not know the institutional and organizational background like August explained, but to me it appeared to be an overreaction, that added meaning to the original offence and blew it up in size by this, it might be more illustrating for the climate of super-dooper political correctness and every-lobbygroup-it's-special-interest-else-witchhunt!-occuring policy that rules so many branches of modern society by now. Where disciplinary measures were needed, they should have been taken care for, but not this public. To me, it runs the danger of causing right the opposite of the desired effect this way. You do not blow up a mosquito until it has the size of an elephant. It reminds me negatively a bit of some of the excessive political correctness campaigns that German defence miniprincess Ursula von der Leyen is haunting the Bundeswehr with recently, pissing the troops and officer corps big time by that and damaging the BW as an institution more than protecting or serving it. I also did not find that speech sensationally appealing. If I were one of those he adressed it with, I would have shrug my shoulders, turn, and carry on with my tasks of the day, unimpressed. Too much air, too much pathos with that cellphone trick. But then, it simply meets the Zeitgeist to talk like this. So many seem to do it at every opportunity these days.