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Right-wing German newspaper agitates against Berlin student For an entire week, Germany’s right-wing Springer media empire has been waging a filthy witch-hunt against the Berlin-based student Bengt R. The 21-year-old, who studies law at Humboldt University and is politically active in the Social Democrats and its youth movement, the Jusos, came under vicious attack from right-wing media outlets, his own party, and Humboldt University management following a few ill-considered posts on Twitter. He initially responded to a sexist post by a member of the Young Liberals, who described a picture of a shelf with cleaning products in a pharmacy as a “bar for women.” In the course of a discussion that developed in response to the post, Bengt wrote in an obviously unserious manner, “Shooting Young Liberal when?” ....