Paula Irmschler’s new column about sovereignty.
People, is your head completely porridge from the cultural struggle? Fascism, Antifa, Cancel Culture, freedom of expression, humor limits, satirical freedom, links and rights and democracy and violence and liberalities, somehow everything means nothing more and everything.
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What we know or not: a right -wing radical was shot. Since then, the stupidest imaginable things have happened.
Stars, politics and public pressure
A German journalist had to withdraw from social media because she did not react appropriately. An American late Nighter was suspended because he did not react appropriately. All sorts of stars and asterisks, oh yes and politicians, were put under pressure to discontinue statements or gave themselves completely without being asked. For some you just invented statements …
… yesterday in the Bundestag they cried out on the subject, before that your cousin third degree in his WhatsApp story mourned the guy, which he did not even know until two weeks ago and somewhere I read this heading, which is now mine.
Rights determine what is “appropriate”
Rights determine what is reasonable right now: You have to behave to this murder, not to the vast majority of the world, all over the world, whether organized by terrorism or through the state. And if you find that, you make a chop boutism. (We all do the all the time and that is also completely fine, if debates are guided so much, you can actually not treat anyone to want to throw a light on permanently underrepresented.)
Rights have currently understood it well to bring most of them to their debate track. They make a topic as big as they want, both through particularly blatant takes in the classic media and through bots that heat up the mood online.
Liberals in the fairway of right narrative
Liberals and too many leftists fall on it and believe the narrative that they somehow have to behave somehow. If you have fantasized a left -wing superiority for years, you can pull some with the call to “neutrality” or “balance” on your side and force them to make them. Accordingly, too many believed that they would now have to say something about this murder and rate it morally. You should sew on a virtual bathroom that immediately makes it clear where you stand.
The story of “violence on both sides”
Too many also believed that because of this murder you have to do in the middle that you have to condemn a so -called “violence on both sides”, which actually does not actually exist, not to the extent that it is swelled. There is permanent violence of misanthropists, racists, anti -Semites, fascists, from individuals, of corporations and states. If you had to fire statement according to statement, you would never finish. But you should start.
Anyone who believes that this day is somehow the same, but somehow, does not believe that those who were not to be carried away by this day and who also pointed out to them were pilloried, whose work was shaken, was showered with murder threats.
Anti-communism and anti-antifa in culture
Anti-communism, or now in its trifular form anti-antifa, and in its stirrup form “against every extremism”, has history in many places, but especially in the USA. Whether with regard to the “Hollywood Ten” in the 40s, against musicians such as Pete Seeger, or later also against the Dixie Chicks who were not patriotic enough, artists should always be on track.
Attention, film recommendation! “Trumbo” with Bryan Cranston about the “Hollywood Ten”.
Particularly This great scene here.
Capital, corporations and cultural struggle
Capital is always happy to help and corporations like Disney are all too happy to carry out what the politically right wind is pretending, and, for example, willingly take off -critical comedians. And liberals, even if they are affected, do not do enough. So the comeback episode of Jimmy Kimmel was also quite a disappointment and gave me more cowardice vibes.
Yes, now some think you talk well, Irmschler. But didn’t Kimmel talk good? Rich and safe, can live wherever he wants, has platforms and fans, he cannot be more radical, it is clear, if he has to be so repentant, he really has to thank this flag-in-wind group, he has to rave about his right-wing friends as if the political attitude is some property against which you cannot do anything or a crudes, as if one does not mean that one is simply certain of the life of the life of the life sought?
And why are so many people addressing as much public as violent as the rights that blocks millions of people every day, deprives them, lets death on the street and simply crashes some of them? Why do you get in this way on this broken freedom of freedom of freedom and talk right to your mouth? Why do you celebrate one song on your poor America after the next, as if there was no policy as if you couldn’t do anything?
Has Phil Ochs already said everything?
Late Night, Satire and Antifa
Perhaps the most progressive progressive is simply not to be expected from American late nights, why should it? They are just an attraction that are gripped between too many economic interests, they are projection surface and unfortunately only one person (hach, too big, the dream of a late night collective …) or as John Oliver says in his very good episode: “… This Kimmel situation Does Feel Like A Turning Point and Note Comedians Are Important But Not. “
Really radically only seems to be “South Park” at the moment …
And anyway the Antifa. Bring to us!
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