Something has happened again on Austrian public broadcaster ORF: In an article about the climate in the Roman Empire (!), the warm period is dated as “around 200 BCE to 150 CE”. “Before our time” instead of “before Christ”? How woke is it actually still?
The chronology used by the ORF is mainly used by non-denominational people, members of non-Christian religions and in explicitly secular states and is preferred to the more common abbreviation BC. The aim is therefore not to provoke non-Christians. On X (Twitter), things have been heating up again since then. “How woke can you actually get in this subsidised workspace?” asks ÖVP politician Manfred Juraczka, for example.
A small side note: In the GDR too, v. u. Z. (before our time, ed.)and (n. )u. Z. (after our time, ed.)were the standard formulation. Whether the ORF, which is financed by compulsory taxes, simply wants to be particularly woke – and deliberately cancels Jesus Christ? after all, the use of the name Christ in the calendar is considered a profession of faith. Muslims, Jews, atheists and others could see this as discriminatory or as a violation of their religious beliefs and freedom of faith.
Nächster Aufreger: ORF streicht Jesus Christus aus der Zeitrechnung | Exxpress