Last week German chancellor
Friedrich Merz in calling for large-scale deportations from Germany suggested that parents ‘Ask their daughters’. The chancellor has received much criticism for his remark, which he has tried to water down or ‘explain.CNN’s John King is covering the upcoming mayoral election in New York. On interviewing voters why they would not vote for Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani a number of people replied, saying 'if a man loved his daughter he could not vote for Mamdani', who is of the Muslim faith.
The New York mayoral election is on Tuesday, November 4.
Below is the article in the Guardian on the Merz comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/friedrich-merz-accused-of-using-dangerous-rhetoric-on-immigration?CMP=share_btn_url
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I live in Germany. I have two daughters. So, as Merz has asked me, my response is that he's talking through his hat.
Merz is dog-whistling; suggesting that migrants cause specific problems for young women. And that you can tell a migrant just by looking at him (because they're always male):
"Of course we still have this problem in the cityscape, and that is why the federal interior minister is now working to enable and carry out expulsions on a very large scale..."
So, going forward, we will use aesthetic criteria to decide on questions of asylum, visas, etc. If you look like you won't enhance the "cityscape" we won't let you in, or let you stay.
As sad as it is to admit it, those who vote AfD are voting for a party with strong fascist and anti-demicratic tendencies. Marz seems to think that he can win over some of them by going AfD-lite. But why would people who are prepared to vote fascist go for an economy, limited version, when they can have the real thing?
Merz should stop fishing on the nasty racist, fascist corner of the lake, and instead build on the liberal, democratic (and Christian!) values which were the foundation of his party, the one established by Adenauer after the Nazi catastrophe.
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