I do not support AfD in any way. However, it‘s slightly undemocratic to want a party to get banned or sidelined. They didn‘t appear out of nowhere and hijacked the power. A quarter of population supports them. The more leftists try to supress AfD, the higher it will rise.
I used to think that but not every logical thought is correct. Tolerance cannot tolerate something that doesn't tolerate it just as a democracy cannot and should not support an anti-democratic party. They need to be banned. Let the bugs that belong to it crawl around in the light until the next rock appears and then can regroup.
Banning parties is illiberal, and a slippery slope you do not want to go down, especially if you cannot prove they are breaking any laws.
What happens when the AfD claims, in bad faith, that your lack of tolerance of X is intolerable, and therefore that your party should be banned? Would you accept this?
"Parents at Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasium in Pankow complained that AfD candidate Alexander Sell had been invited to a class panel discussion with other politicians. Sell has previously spouted racist garbage about “mass immigration of barbarians into Europe” and so on. But the kids in the class voted in favour of inviting him...."
Europeans -- without whom there would be no unified Germany -- should have something to say about this....
AfD (Sell again) were also invited to NMS (was due this week). Parents were not happy and protested. NMS cancelled whole panel discussion rather than disinvite AfD.
I do not support AfD in any way. However, it‘s slightly undemocratic to want a party to get banned or sidelined. They didn‘t appear out of nowhere and hijacked the power. A quarter of population supports them. The more leftists try to supress AfD, the higher it will rise.
I used to think that but not every logical thought is correct. Tolerance cannot tolerate something that doesn't tolerate it just as a democracy cannot and should not support an anti-democratic party. They need to be banned. Let the bugs that belong to it crawl around in the light until the next rock appears and then can regroup.
Banning parties is illiberal, and a slippery slope you do not want to go down, especially if you cannot prove they are breaking any laws.
What happens when the AfD claims, in bad faith, that your lack of tolerance of X is intolerable, and therefore that your party should be banned? Would you accept this?
If I were a teenager, the idea of ruling elites trying to ban a party would make doubly want to vote for them, regardless of their policies.
"Parents at Heinrich-Schliemann-Gymnasium in Pankow complained that AfD candidate Alexander Sell had been invited to a class panel discussion with other politicians. Sell has previously spouted racist garbage about “mass immigration of barbarians into Europe” and so on. But the kids in the class voted in favour of inviting him...."
Europeans -- without whom there would be no unified Germany -- should have something to say about this....
https://toppersherwood.substack.com/p/the-new-melting-pot
AfD (Sell again) were also invited to NMS (was due this week). Parents were not happy and protested. NMS cancelled whole panel discussion rather than disinvite AfD.
Bit concerning really.
Nelson Mandela?
Yep.