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In the worsening dispute between the SPD party leadership on the one hand and the former Bundestag President Wolfgang Thierse and Gesine Schwan on the other, more and more SPD functionaries are intervening.
Ralf Stegner, SPD parliamentary group leader in Schleswig-Holstein, defended Thierse and Schwan: “Allegations against Gesine Schwan and Wolfgang Thierse are unjustified and absurd.
They do not speak out against intolerance and discrimination, but rather freedom of expression and controversial discourse.
Minority rights must always be respected.
There are no absolute claims! ”Tweeted Stegner.
He later shared an article with the title: "Thierse: Anyone who no longer wants him in the SPD has understood nothing".
The Minister of State for Europe, Michael Roth, also spoke out in favor of Thierse: “Wolfgang Thierse is a decent and important social democrat.
The SPD must remain the forum in which social and cultural issues of diversity, liberality and inclusivity are passionately discussed.
Quite controversial, but always respectful.
I would not publicly deny that another soci was a decent SPD member.
Is a question of respect and solidarity.
We are a team, ”wrote Roth on“ Twitter ”.
"Trench warfare that destroys public spirit"
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The stumbling block was a guest contribution by Thierses in the “FAZ” and a subsequent interview in “Deutschlandfunk”, in which he warned, among other things, of an increasing division in society due to excessive identity politics.
This must not become a trench war that destroys public spirit.
“Your own concern, your subjective experience should not and must not replace the substantiating argument.
Biographical influences, no matter how bitter they may be, should not serve as a pretext for discrediting unsympathetic, opposing views and excluding them from the discourse.
Victims are definitely to be heard, but they are not right per se and should not speak right themselves and decide the discussion.
Because the name offends and offends me, it has to go, that's the fatal maxim, ”he wrote.
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The criticism of the ideology of white superiority should not "become the myth of the hereditary guilt of the white man".
This only creates "false cultural fronts, insecurities and defenses".
The "liquidation of history" has so far been the matter of dictators, authoritarian regimes and religious and ideological fanatics.
“That must not be a matter for democracies”.
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Gesine Schwan, on the other hand, caused a stir with her online event “Culture Creates Democracy” by the SPD Culture Committee and the SPD Fundamental Values Commission, which caused activists to quarrel.
"Thierse offends black people and people in the LGBTIQA + community"
Party leader Saskia Esken and party vice Kevin Kühnert indirectly criticized Thierse and Schwan for this, even saying that they were ashamed of people like them and their “backward-looking image of the SPD”.
Thierse then offered to leave the party.
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Unlike Stegner and Roth, other SPD members renewed their criticism of the 77-year-old on Wednesday: “Tolerance towards racist practices - like the 'cultural appropriation' relativized by Thierse are a red line.
He puts the fighters against racism equal to those who stir up racism, ”tweeted Liban Farah, candidate for the Marburg city parliament.
And added: "Wolfgang Thierse insults black people and people of the LGBTIQA + community, equates left-wing struggle against racism with right-wing racism and calls for freedom of expression for racist practices such as blackfacing".
Even the chairman of the Jusos Nürnberg, Oguz Akman, showed no sympathy for Thierse.
“For me, my life as a gay PoC and my right to the same rights as the majority society are not part of the discussion.
It is always those who enjoy the highest rights in De (Germany) who criticize the demand of the minorities for equal rights ”.