Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2011
Broder zur Funktionalisierung von Moral
Einfach weil's so schön ist, auch wenn hier mit etwas Verspätung: Henryk M. Broder zur anti-amerikanischen Moralisierung und dem Deutschen Gemüt, bzw. "Ihr feigen Deutschen seid passiv-aggressiv!". Humorlosigkeit hat er noch vergessen, wie diese Reaktion zeigt, die ansonsten Broder nur bestätigt.
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No. Sorry, but I'm no fan of this Broder. When a satirist follows a narrow agenda, he becomes an agent provocateur. No, that's not really his worst sin. But, a humorist, who takes himself too seriously, is hardly humorous... Broder's high moral self-righteousness is surpassed only by his demagogic mirror-image in German politics, Guido Westerwelle!
AntwortenLöschenFor a Muslim-baiter par-excellence, the Sarazin scandal appeared to drain all of his acclaimed wit, and what followed was a pathetic flailing of the most humorless kind. Broder whined about how the Germans didn't honor their mavericks, their so-called "Querdenker"! Even more laughable: He was reduced to defending the tenuous intellectual prowess of the SPD banker. An even greater sin for a satirist: To forget that irony is a double-edged sword!
And, when the satirist himself became a target, he resorted to invective, and that too not of the most imaginative kind: eg. arschloch, doppelarschloch, superarschloch! (See http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/einlassung-mit-arschloch-doppelarschloch-und-superarschloch/3846826.html)
But, seriously! Leveling charges of anti-Americanism against the Left requires no heavy-duty intellectual labor (although by now I know there’s enough ground for it in Germany), especially when you have no stake in the leftist politics, especially when your great white hope has been Angela Merkel! What irritates the hell out of me, is the elitist anti-intellectualism that underlines Broder's attacks on the bleeding heart liberals.
Not unlike the device of irony, the invocation of anti-Americanism too is double-edged. When it’s deployed to pooh-pooh the legitimate human-rights concerns, it starts resembling the elitist anti-intellectualism that’s reminiscent of "Historikerstreit". Raising the issue of terrorists’ rights is not the most convenient thing to do, is it? As far as I know, the human-rights-defense of terrorists hasn’t ever been a particularly popular stance, not in Germany and not in the U.S. As far as know, such debates aren’t restricted to Germany but are part of the American landscape with its robust political cacophony. To quote a well-known German-speaking émigré in the U.S. from the 1940s, “Die Menschenrechte waren nicht als Belohnung für fügsames Benehmen gedacht”.
The way in which Sarazin wasn’t actually helpful to advance the debate on that special German thing called “Integration”, I believe, Broder isn’t particularly useful in advancing the debate on political correctness in Germany.
Regards,
JW
Eine Kritik an Broders Fernsehsendung findet man hier.
AntwortenLöschenInteressant in diesem Kontext auch die Reaktion die
Reaktion Jon Stuarts in der Daily Show zur Tötung Bin Ladens.