Summary
AfD leader Alice Weidel sparked controversy by claiming the Holocaust is “politically instrumentalized” against her party.
In a tense ARD interview, she dismissed criticism of her past remarks, including calling Germany’s remembrance culture a “guilt cult,” a term backed by Elon Musk.
Weidel expressed frustration with Holocaust discussions, calling them “annoying,” and defended labeling Hitler a “communist,” despite historians refuting the claim.
With the AfD polling second ahead of Germany’s February 23 election, the remarks highlight the party’s ongoing struggle with its far-right associations.
Two things can be correct. The Holocaust is “politically instrumentalized” against AfD but there is a reason for that.
But also, there is a reason parties like that are onn the rise and in part it’s because the rest of the parties don’t address some issues.
Capitalist parties are just the masters of openly racist parties, together they create those issues to divide the population. They’ve always had the disenfranchised to blame and now they’re just adding new residents to the mix.
Leftist parties have addressed the issues for so long, but without the marketing money, populist rhetoric and appealing to racists, most don’t seem to care.
It’s like saying that higher taxes is “politically instrumentalized” against left-wing political parties.
Yeah, you instrumentalize a group’s unpopular beliefs against them. That’s literally how politics works.