Floris Biskamp: CDU's past demands now called 'remigration'
In an interview with 'der Freitag', political scientist Floris Biskamp challenges Vicente Valentim's thesis that right-wing opinions have normalized due to the AfD's presence. Biskamp, who leads a DFG project on the negotiation of boundaries of what can be said in political discourse, cites Helmut Kohl's proposal to repatriate foreign workers as an example of positions that would today be labeled 'remigration'. He argues that such ideas were already present in mainstream politics decades ago, contradicting Valentim's claim that the number of people with extreme right-wing views has not increased but only become more socially acceptable.
Key facts
- Floris Biskamp is a political scientist from Tübingen.
- He leads the DFG project 'Die Aushandlung von Sagbarkeitsgrenzen in politischen Diskursen'.
- Vicente Valentim is a Portuguese political scientist based in Madrid.
- Valentim's book 'Die Normalisierung der radikalen Rechten' argues right-wing attitudes have normalized, not increased.
- Biskamp cites Helmut Kohl's proposal to repatriate foreign workers.
- The interview was published in 'der Freitag'.
- Biskamp disagrees with Valentim's normalization thesis.
- The discussion centers on the shifting boundaries of acceptable political discourse.
Entities
Institutions
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- der Freitag
Locations
- Tübingen
- Germany
- Madrid
- Portugal