Olaf Scholz demands answers in Aiwanger scandal

[Zebra]

Aiwanger is not anti.semitic ….

 

[Silver Cat]

i am at home in baden-baden . in the southwest ….

Nice place. I was there once, but I was too drunken and hardly remember a thing.

 

[odanny]

You see how much interest there is in Olaf. In America we have little to no interest in anything that goes on in the rest of the world.

That is true with virtually all Trumpers, but thinking people do care about what is happening in the world.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

That is true with virtually all Trumpers, but thinking people do care about what is happening in the world.

I see that by the intense interest shown on this subject.

 

[odanny]

I see that by the intense interest shown on this subject.

This is not a particularly interesting subject.

 

[frigidweirdo]

You see how much interest there is in Olaf. In America we have little to no interest in anything that goes on in the rest of the world.

Most Americans on this forum can't even cope with dealing with politics in their own country unless it comes dressed up as entertainment.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I see that by the intense interest shown on this subject.

How many "thinking people" do you think there are on this forum?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

How many "thinking people" do you think there are on this forum?

Thinking people are different from uninterested people. It is a curiosity of Americans that we are mostly uninterested in the goings on in other countries.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Thinking people are different from uninterested people. It is a curiosity of Americans that we are mostly uninterested in the goings on in other countries.

I'm not sure there is a difference.

Take, for example, Proportional Representation.

In order to understand how Proportional Representation works, you need to look at other countries. You can't be a thinking person and be uninterested in how it works, otherwise you're not thinking about Proportional Representation.

People who think, tend to be interested in things. People who don't, tend to be interested in nothing.

 

[Zebra]

Olaf Scholz demands answers in Aiwanger scandal​

Bavarian premier demands answers over antisemitism scandal – DW – 08/29/2023

Bavarian deputy premier Hubert Aiwanger has been accused of authoring an antisemitic leaflet in his school days. He has been called to answer further questions after a meeting with Bavarian Premier Markus Söder.

www.dw.com

How would such a case be treated in the US?

 

[luiza]

How would such a case be treated in the US?

Lots of virtual signalling spiced with possibly deliberately created hysteria

 

[zaangalewa]

Olaf Scholz demands answers in Aiwanger scandal​

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Chancellor Olaf Scholz takes serios such a stupid nonsense from the pubescent brother of Aiwanger decades ago? That's indeed a scandal! No one ever heard from Mr. Aiwanger any racist Nazi-statement since he is a politician.

That's an extremely low level of left-wing election propaganda. Main reason: Nearly no one in Germany agrees any longer with the politics of the current government - what increases indeed the number of protest voters for the political party AfD - and that's really a Nazi dominated political party.
Aiwangers political party "Die Freien Wähler" is a political party who tries to avoid ideological concepts and who try to bring more expertise into politics.

The change of the government in the laws for the voting right in Germany is by the way on its own an undemocratic scrap. Specially because they try to minimize the influence of direct mandates. That's for example a real scandal because they try in this way to minimize the influence of the voters in Bavaria in the federal republic of Germany - who are in generall more oriented than all others in single trustworthy persons than in political parties. And it is by the way also a scandal that politicians from outside of Bavaria try to manipulate the Bavarian elections.

 

[Zebra]

Why it is important for Germany:

"This is about Bavaria's reputation," Hermann said.

Bavaria is set to hold state elections in October of this year. The vice president of the state parliament, Karl Freller, called for Aiwanger to provide a "complete explanation" before the election, according to public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk.

Bavarian premier demands answers over antisemitism scandal – DW – 08/29/2023

Bavarian deputy premier Hubert Aiwanger has been accused of authoring an antisemitic leaflet in his school days. He has been called to answer further questions after a meeting with Bavarian Premier Markus Söder.

www.dw.com

 

[Zebra]

Nice place. I was there once, but I was too drunken and hardly remember a thing.

Drunk on hot water?

 

[Zebra]

What THE GUARDIAN says:

Bavaria’s deputy premier is under intense pressure over an antisemitic pamphlet he is claimed to have written as a 17-year-old schoolboy, in which Auschwitz was described as an “entertainment quarter”.

Hubert Aiwanger was the focus of an extraordinary session of the German state’s coalition on Monday, after the emergence of the leaflet he is accused of distributing at school, 35 years ago, which makes repeated mocking references to the Holocaust.


Charlotte Knobloch, the president of the Jewish community in Munich, on Monday said the leaflet reminded her “of the most vile propaganda of the Nazi era in its tone”.

Bavariaâs deputy leader faces accusations over antisemitic pamphlet

Hubert Aiwanger rejects claims he wrote leaflet mocking the Holocaust when he was a 17-year-old schoolboy

www.theguardian.com

 

[Zebra]

What Politico knows:

Nazi leaflet overshadows Bavarian state election

Critics are calling for the Bavarian vice premier to resign after admission that he helped distribute an antisemitic flier as a teen.

www.politico.eu

Hubert Aiwanger, deputy premier and economy minister of the large and influential southern German state of Bavaria, admitted over the weekend that he was involved in distributing an antisemitic leaflet during his high school years in the late 1980s. Aiwanger now faces growing pressure to answer questions, along with calls for his resignation.

 

[Zebra]

A strange case.

Nothing is clear yet.

Can you make head and tail out of this case?

 

[Zebra]

I'm not sure there is a difference.

Take, for example, Proportional Representation.

In order to understand how Proportional Representation works, you need to look at other countries. You can't be a thinking person and be uninterested in how it works, otherwise you're not thinking about Proportional Representation.

People who think, tend to be interested in things. People who don't, tend to be interested in nothing.

So it is!

 

[Zebra]

Again:

Why this is important:

With elections slated for the state on October 8, any prolonged controversy around the politician could affect not only his party’s popularity, but also Bavaria’s Premier Markus Söder of the center-right Christian Social Union (CSU). Söder’s CSU rules in a coalition with Aiwanger’s Free Voters — and many believe Söder aims to become chancellor in Berlin.

Nazi leaflet overshadows Bavarian state election

Critics are calling for the Bavarian vice premier to resign after admission that he helped distribute an antisemitic flier as a teen.

www.politico.eu

 

[Zebra]

Chancellor Olaf Scholz takes serios such a stupid nonsense from the pubescent brother of Aiwanger decades ago? That's indeed a scandal! No one ever heard from Mr. Aiwanger any racist Nazi-statement since he is a politician.

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