In this case, it manifests as linguicism: the deliberate disparagement of minority languages. When Edmund Stoiber proclaimed in 2006 during a political event, "Whoever riots will be thrown out, and those who can't speak German won't even get in," he certainly wasn't referring to Danes, Americans, and Dutch among us. We now know that learning our mother tongues as children would not have harmed us; on the contrary, it is something we can never make up for. Linguistically assimilated, we are still socially perceived as "different" – foreigners in Germany, only without a voice. A secure retreat into the diaspora and the homelands of our parents is thus denied to us. Language is also identity, a fact acknowledged even by conservative and right-wing parties. In 2015, the CSU, led by Horst Seehofer, called for a law requiring migrants to speak German, even at home. Similarly, in 2018, the AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) demanded that German be enshrined as the language in the constitution. The right to one's own mother tongue (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 29, 1992) is repeatedly attacked and endangered.