WORLD:
Who are the driving forces behind identity politics in Germany?
Sandra Kostner:
These are mainly interest groups such as the German Women's Council or the German Association of Women Lawyers.
Both campaign for parity laws, i.e. for electoral lists to be filled with 50 percent women and 50 percent each.
In addition, there are a number of migrant associations that were only founded in recent years and that are generously supported with public money.
Its members are mainly academics whose parents or grandparents moved to Germany.
You transfer the narrative of structural discrimination that emerged in the USA with regard to African Americans one-to-one to people with a migration background in Germany.
In doing so, they adopt the fundamental mistake of thinking that any statistical discrepancy between the proportion of migrants in the total population and their representation in political parties, the media or boardrooms is viewed as a result of structural discrimination.
WORLD:
Which organizations do you mean?