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"Kill her!

The Lord will already recognize his own. ”That is what Arnold Amalrich is supposed to have said, who led the crusade against the Cathars in 1209, a heretical separation of Christianity.

During the storming of the southern French city of Béziers, the soldiers asked him how they should distinguish Catholics from heretics.

Arnold ordered them to send all citizens to the afterlife so that God could then sort out the innocent.

This is how the greatest massacre of the High Middle Ages began.

Kill them all, or, as it is called on heavy metal T-shirts, “Kill'em all”: This slogan is the most radical solution to the problem that arises in every campaign that you can also hit the wrong people.

Now a shitstorm is not a war.

The victims don't die.

Often they are not even silenced, but - as the Shitstorm soldiers like to find out angrily - even get additional attention: in interviews, on talk shows, on front pages.

With Boris Palmer that can be observed right now: the green heretic is more present than ever after a digital storm thundered over him at the weekend.

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Why exactly is still unclear.

Did Tübingen's mayor racist attack the former national soccer player Dennis Aogo with a Facebook comment?

Or did Palmer Aogo, who after a statement about "train to the point of gassing" himself just suffered a shit storm and lost his job at the television station Sky, on the contrary defended - albeit in a very tasteless way?

There was no time in the Twitter express court to clarify this question, which at least decides whether Palmer is a racist or not.

This is shown by the Post, with which Annalena Baerbock condemned Palmer's sentence from Friday evening as “racist” on Saturday morning and presented the “irony” claimed by Palmer as a “belated” excuse.

Kill them, God will already recognize his own - that was true, transferred into the logic of the shitstorm, also for the actors who took part in the action #allesdichtmachen and were therefore defamed as rights, conspiracy theorists and “lateral thinkers”.

The character assassination always comes first, and the interpreters can later deal with the question of guilt on the talk shows or in the party courts.

Arnold Amalrich already knew that you will never find out exactly.

The media purgatory, in which the canceled end up, is getting bigger and bigger.

For democratic culture, this beyond the discourse that opens up in the midst of the public is a danger.