Human freight vs. Human right

23.06.2018 daHEIM

„Do you mean: human right?“ google asks, when you look for the neologism “human freight.” Even google considers the expression as weird.

However, in the second entry there is a link to an article that appeared in the German newspaper FAZ, devoted to the Italian prime minister’s linguistic derailment when talking about politics in his country.[> download article]

Scrolling further down, one comes across an entry at mydict:
'More than a thousand paddlewheel steamers plowed up and down the Mississippi in the mid-nineteenth century, loaded to the curb with goods and human freight - slaves for the cotton plantations between Memphis and St. Louis.' (source: DIE WELT 2001)

As our contribution to the social discourse on national and European asylum policies, we publish the "KUNSTASYL Charter of Human Rights", phrased by 30 performers in 2017.

Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Salvini during a talkshow
Gooogle-search for "Menschenfracht"