Why do people defend artistic freedom in the case of the cabaret artist Lisa Eckhart and her anti-Semitic and racist jokes, but do they want to ban the WDR song "Meine Oma ist ne Umweltsau"? In his current column, Sascha Lobo described how right-wing thought patterns arise, with which people declare one to be legitimate satire, while the other is disgraced as totalitarian, elitist and exaggerated.
Lobo describes the current discussions about "Cancel Culture" as a sham debate. Actually, it is about the age-old concept of exclusion, which has always been an instrument of power. The term cancel culture is used bigoted and mutates into the right fighting term, argued Lobo in his column.
How cancel culture is debated, Lobo sees as a practical example of those right-wing thought patterns that are characterized, among other things, by a belief in one's own superiority and the construction of a "we versus them" scheme. With such ways of thinking, a very personal shift to the right is possible in five steps, which can be exercised on the basis of any current political development.
Understanding this mechanism is particularly important because "being on the right is like dehydration, if you are not constantly actively opposing it, it happens by itself," says Lobo.
In the podcast, Sascha Lobo comments on some letters from his readers.
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