Tuesday evening. A new edition of the program “Viertel nach Acht – the talk that makes the headlines”. New topics, new exciters, new arguments!
The guests on Tuesday: Islam expert and psychologist Ahmad Mansour, Matthew Karnitschnig, head of Politico’s Germany office, ex-government spokesman Béla Anda, Nena Schink, BILD presenter and bestselling author and BILD columnist Alexander von Schönburg.
► What is special about the “Viertel nach Acht” format: The guests determine the topics themselves – everyone brings a “excitement” with them, which is then discussed by everyone.
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Lifestyle feminism
Here, following the introduction by Nena Schink, the guests discussed a “new” feminism that only aims to present itself as “feminist” in social networks without addressing specific issues. “Women Only Events”, ie events only for women, or pithy symbolic slogans in brightly colored Instagram posts, are just a few examples of this symbolic activism.
“What scares me about this lifestyle feminism is that important topics are broken down into an Instagram post,” explained Schink.
Ahmad Mansour criticized the fact that on Instagram a topic has “attention of two seconds and thus remains superficial”. “Separatism” prevails, according to BILD columnist Alexander von Schönburg, who was addressing the increasing division of social groups.
Merkel’s relativization of the refugee crisis
Politico journalist Matthew Karnitschnig criticized Chancellor Merkel, who recently stated in an interview that the 2015 refugee crisis was not a crisis for her because every refugee is first of all human.
“Just because the Chancellor thinks that this is not a crisis doesn’t make the situation any less complicated,” explained the Germany boss at Politico, which has been part of Axel Springer for a few days.
Karnitschnig continues: “The refugee crisis is unfortunately still with us, has divided Europe, cost us billions and has ensured that Germany has to do with a right-wing party.”
Even Béla Anda criticized the Chancellor: “Really? That was the biggest crisis of her chancellorship and it has not been managed to this day. “Merkel lets herself be celebrated as refugee chancellor to this day and at the same time she makes deals with Erdogan that ensure that refugees do not get to safety.”
“Everyone who criticized the refugee policy was AfD or a Nazi,” criticizes migration expert Ahmad Mansour. Merkel had “harmed the conservative in her party and cost her party’s government”.
Mockery of the Germany flag
Béla Anda criticized the action of the new member of the Bundestag Paula Piechotta (Greens): “The Germany flag was abolished by the Nazis and has always been a symbol of democracy and if you discredit this flag now, then you make exactly the mistake of getting one The symbol of democratic Germany. “
Ms. Piechotta “there is obviously a lack of historical understanding,” said the ex-Chancellor spokesman.
Ahmad Mansour adds that in the SPD, the Greens and the Left there are “people who have a very disturbed relationship to German identity” and BILD man Alexander von Schönburg stated “that we in Germany have a problem with patriotism” Chancellor Merkel concerns.
Respect for Armin Laschet
For BILD columnist Alexander von Schönburg, it is clear that Armin Laschet “failed because of Angela Merkel, who fired him from an empty CDU and didn’t really help him in the election campaign.” But: “How he is now dealing with his defeat is a struggle for me Respect. “
Béla Anda contradicts: Laschet only saw reality very late and saw himself as a possible new chancellor for far too long. Now he is a politician in the back rows in the Bundestag.
Our school system needs to be reformed
Ahmad Mansour, who often gives lectures in schools, says: “School is a place of socialization and not just a place of learning.” New subjects such as “media literacy” and “promoting democracy” are needed. After every new crisis, people talk but not act.
“As the father of two daughters in Berlin, I can only agree with you. What is really important is that the children start to think for themselves, ”says Matthew Karnitschnig. Béla Anda added that children need to learn to “present and debate”. It not only needs new equipment, but also “new ideas”.