Maybrit Illner responded to the attack in Hanau with an extra edition of her talk show and asked: "Right-wing terror out of control?"
- ZDF talk show "Maybrit Illner" with extra edition on Hanau
- Only well-intentioned appeals come from Armin Laschet
- Right-wing extremism researcher Matthias Quent and author Kübra Gümüşa put their fingers in the wound
The names of the victims
- Ferhat Unvar
- Gökhan Gültekin
- Hamza Kutovic
- Said Nessar El Hashemi
- Mercedes
- Can Gülcü
- Bilal Gökçe
- Sedat Gürbüz
These are the names of victims of an insane murderer whose insanity could have risen to the ground of normalcy. A normality that always believes it has to differentiate between "us" and "the others". But they don't exist, "the others". Because we are ourselves. For some years now it has been common in German to speak of "people with a migration background" when you mean "the others", who may not be called Müllermeierschmidt.
Maybrit Illner (ZDF) talks about racially motivated murders of Hanau
Enlightened contemporaries have already noticed that the question of the origin of a person who is not the color of toasted bread is at least rude. It is high time to put the "migration background" completely in the background. And then forget about it.
My parents are from Slupsk, a city that was once called Stolp and is now in Poland. Do I have a migration background now? Or am I part of the "German majority society", as ZDF anchorman Claus Kleber formulated in the "heute journal" quite ingeniously?
The victims of right-wing terror in #Hanau are children of all those who sought protection from us or who built a future for themselves. You are from here.
Ferhat Unvar
Gökhan Gültekin
Hamza Kutovic
Said Nessar El Hashemi
Mercedes
Can Gülcü
Bilal Gökçe
Sedat Gürbüz
Let's not forget them!
Maybrit Illner (ZDF) zu Hanau: Two guests put their fingers in the wound
The racially motivated murders of Hanau are not the first, but the most recent (appalling) reason to look in the mirror and investigate your own racism, the "fear of the black man" that was instilled in us in the fifties. And despite all the problems with the talk shows, Maybrit Illner had invited two guests to their “special” edition who put their fingers in the wound: the right-wing extremist researcher Matthias Quent and the author and journalist Kübra Gümüşa. Neither of them were satisfied with the scratching on the surface, which they had taken care of again, with the finger pointing at the arsonists, but showed the matches in our own hands.
But it started badly with one player, by talking about the Hanau dead and their "lack of German descent". "Lacking": is it still possible?
Maybrit Illner (ZDF) on Hanau: Only well-intentioned appeals come from Armin Laschet
After all, it was recalled that since 1990 more than 200 people have been murdered by right-wing extremists. "How many times actually" asked Maybrit Illner when she tried to be provocative. Since she asked Armin Laschet , only well-intentioned appeals came as an answer. Just surface. The police must certainly be equipped with more experts in the IT sector, if the constitutional protection would also have to be active in right-wing extremist networks.
But that "society has to be more agitated"? It is, only a few in politics still need something. Laschet's interior minister Herbert Reul, for example. He identified the shisha bars as a crime scene. And could be sure of the applause of the AfD agitators (and the "picture" ). After that Illner did not ask the country father, who then eagerly pointed his finger at the AfD as the parliamentary representative of right-wing extremism .
Maybrit Illner (ZDF) on Hanau: Right-wing extremism has existed since the 1960s
But right-wing extremism has existed in the Federal Republic of Germany since the 1960s, Quent explained, recalling the Oktoberfest assassination - just as little has been done about the NSU murders , in which the authorities just as persistently refuse the obvious involvement of more than the known perpetrators to disclose, as Kübra Gümüşa and also Janine Wissler , leader of the left in the Hessian parliament, emphasized.
But the authorities in charge like to cling to the trivializing version of the "single offender": a deception, as Quent had already stated in the "heute journal": Racism is not only to be found on the right; it was made social. The perpetrator chose his victims in a racist manner, in accordance with his delusions, which should also be understood as an echo of media representations.
Maybrit Illner (ZDF) zu Hanau: Perpetrators do not fall from the sky
Maybrit Illner special, ZDF, from Thursday, 10:35 p.m. Media library
Kübra Gümüşa confirmed that the perpetrators did not fall from the sky. She went further and said racism was the norm. One has to “proactively become anti-racist”. That begins, said Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth (B'90 / Greens), already with the language. Gümüşa gave an example: she recalled that people in need had been declared a “wave of refugees” and their personality had been denied.
Janine Wissler mentioned a CSU minister of the interior who not only declared migration to be the "mother of all problems", but also proudly announced on his 69th birthday that he had deported 69 Afghans: the everyday racism ... It is already in the School books, says Quent, and find their continuation in seemingly reputable forums such as “Welt online”, where a crazy blogger is raving about “Kulturmarxismus”.
Maybrit Illner (ZDF) zu Hanau: No room for self-reflection in talk shows
And then Kübra Gümüşa also addressed the host and her profession: just as polarizing content was promoted in social networks, the talk shows were also about competing with each other with his opinions instead of leaving room for self-reflection. That was a problem.
If Seehofer and Söder have learned something, Illner wanted to know from Armin Laschet. A rhetorical question. After all, Quent knew that sensitivity had increased with the protection of the constitution - since Hans Georg Maassen was no longer the boss ...
By Daland Segler
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