Why you should know the word “woke” now
DThe word woke can only be found sporadically before the 2000s. Erika Badu raps it in 2008, but it won’t get virulent until 2014. After … Read more
Political correctness (PC)
How enlightened are we ?: Dialectical racism
Dhe year 2020 was also marked by an intense debate on the role of racism in European history of the Enlightenment. Racist statements by Immanuel … Read more
Oliver Stone: “Today films should be liberal, tolerant and humanitarian, blah, blah, blah”
WIf you want to find out the truth, you have to get close, it says in “Salvador”, one of Oliver Stone’s first films. And if … Read more
Lisa Eckhart in the “Literary Quartet”: Maxim Biller and the “Nazi Domina”
Hat the “Literary Quartet” invited a seditious anti-Semite with a Hitler Youth hairstyle? This is what the writer Maxim Biller claims, who apparently doesn’t like … Read more
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht on the role of the victim in academic discourse
Culture Political Correctness The role of victim rises to the status of the highest dignity Status: 04:06 a.m. | Reading time: 4 minutes By Hans … Read more
Richard Dreyfuss: “#MeToo, unfortunately that was often character assassination”
WORLD: “Astronaut” was directed by the director Shelagh Mcleod, your film daughter is married to a black man, and both have a multiracial child whose … Read more
Cancel Culture: Even the British are losing their sense of humor
opinion Cancel Culture Even the British lose their sense of humor Stand: 6:15 p.m. | Reading time: 3 minutes The “Last Night of the Proms” … Read more
Film funding in Germany: who passes the diversity test?
EAfter 125 years of wildly unregulated filmmaking, there are now guidelines for what films should be made in Germany. They come from the Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein Film … Read more
Racism charge: Georg Herold, the N-picture and the blind zeitgeist
GOne has suspected it for quite some time, is also feared, but is stunned now. How the politically correct zeitgeist mobilizes on social networks without … Read more