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[Thomas Eckhardt]

Otto Sell schrieb:

> Of course you are absolutely right about the "Menschenpark"-affair.
> Sloterdijk had touched the area of pc in German history, broke a
> "Denkverbot" - but the industrial-technological complex has not got this
> limitations in thinking some "intellectuals" got because they cannot leave
> the holocaust-experience for a moment and think only of the future.

I am not sure whether I get your meaning. Could you explain?

I don't know too much about that Sloterdijk-affair but I tend to be very wary of
that anti-pc stance which has been so prominent in German media from taz (more
or less left-wing) to faz (more or less right-wing) for years. Usually in our
newspapers and magazines terms like "Denkverbot" and "Tabubruch" are used to
evoke a non-existing left-wing establishment that supposedly allows and forbids
people to make certain statements about certain issues. Martin Walser's
detestable lecture in the Paulskirche, for example, was hailed by those who
approved of his point of view as a necessary "Tabubruch".

Kai once mentioned Diedrich Diederichsen as an important contemporary German
author. I agree and recommend Diedrichsen's "Politische Korrekturen", which
treats the origin of pc in the US of A and the reception of the term in Germany
in some depth.

Thomas