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The former President of the Bundestag Wolfgang Thierse sharply criticized Tübingen's green Mayor Boris Palmer on the WELT talk show "Open End" on Saturday evening.

Palmer is threatened with expulsion from his party for repeating an obscene, racist abuse against football player Dennis Aogo in a Facebook post - albeit apparently satirical.

Palmer's words are “a clearly racist utterance,” Thierse told talk show host Michel Friedman, because Palmer “deliberately takes up an old, racist cliché and does not make it clear that it is about satire and irony,” Thierse said .

"He wants to end up as a victim"

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The journalist Jagoda Marinić, also a guest on the show, considers Palmer's controversial post to be “calculation” and “political game”.

She said at “Open End” on Saturday evening: “He wants the discussions about it.

In the end he wants to stand there as a victim so that he can say: You see, one simply isn't allowed to say anything more here.

There's a cancel culture here;

there is a dictatorship of opinion here. "

When asked by Michel Friedman, the journalist Hadija Haruna-Oelker also said: "Of course it's racism."

After this renewed scandal, the Greens now want to expel Boris Palmer from the party.

At the state party conference in Baden-Württemberg on Saturday, 161 delegates voted for an exclusion procedure, 44 against, and eight abstained.

“The time is ripe for it.

Because the measure is full, ”said Green Country Manager Oliver Hildenbrand in Stuttgart.

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The Tübingen mayor ensures that the public debate is polarized with “staged taboos”.

Palmer had caused outrage on Facebook with statements about the former national soccer player Dennis Aogo.

In the course of the discussion on Friday, Palmer used a racist and obscene term from a quote attributed to Aogo and commented, obviously ironically: "Aogo is a bad racist."

Background: “Open End” is the new talk without time limits and interruptions, which Michel Friedman will host on WELT on Saturdays from 11 p.m.

The show only ends when all guests have left or when Michel Friedman asks to do so.

Here you can see the episode "Open End" in full length.