taz Salon: Kulturkampf um die Wurst

In the organizer's words:

How do climate denial, farmers' protests and right-wing hatred of the Greens affect society and federal politics? A taz Salon with Jost Maurin and Andrea Röpke.

It's all about the sausage, and in more ways than one: right-wing populists and the extreme right are on the rise and are increasingly plowing the fields of ecology, agriculture and environmental policy. They are using the denial of man-made climate change or insect mortality for their culture war. Alongside vegan bratwurst, their main enemy is clear: the Greens.

Right-wingers have been targeting rural regions for a long time

It should come as no surprise that right-wingers are also active in organic food stores and on organic farms. In this field, the AfD is also showing how much it wants to be a movement rather than a party organization and is pandering to the anti-democratic spectrum. All of this has a long tradition: brown offshoots have always been up to mischief in the ecological movement. However, yesterday as today, the right-wingers are never concerned with protecting the environment, but always with the people, homeland and nation.

The extent of the brown networks could also be seen recently at the farmers' protests, some of which consisted of remnants of local corona denial scenes and some of which also cultivated links to right-wing and neo-Nazi groups. This is bearing rotten fruit: federal politicians are allowing themselves to be pushed politically by the right-wing mob. The ministry of the Green Party's Cem Özdemir is tending towards an environmental rollback.

Can this course still be corrected? How far will the right-wing success go? And what strategies can enlightened citizens use to counter the right-wing culture war?

Discuss with our guests in the taz Salon:

🐾 Jost Maurin is an editor for the taz's economy and environment section. He writes mainly on food issues - such as agricultural policy, genetic engineering, pesticides, consumer protection and the food industry. Maurin has received several journalism awards, including the "Green Reportage" prize three times.

🐾 Andrea Röpke is a right-wing extremism expert, investigative journalist and taz author. She works for media outlets such as Spiegel-TV, WDR, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Blick nach rechts. Her work has received numerous awards, including the Otto Brenner Prize and the Paul Spiegel Prize from the Central Council of Jews in Germany. She has written several books, most recently "Völkische Landnahme - Alte Sippen, junge Siedler, rechte Ökos" together with Andreas Speit.

🐾 Jean-Philipp Baeck moderates this taz Salon. He is an editor at taz and deputy head of the Investigative Reportage & Research department. His main topics are right-wing extremism, racism, anti-Semitism and migration. In 2020, he and Andreas Speit published the anthology "Rechte Egoshooter. From virtual hate speech to livestream assassination".

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