“Time”: Yascha Mounk: Strange and strange

It’s amazing how quickly a person disappears. On the Internet. If there’s anything disreputable about him. “Oops! This happens in the best universities…” the Bucerius Law School apologizes on its homepage. The search for one of “Germany’s first private law schools,” according to the self-reported conversation with Yascha Mounk published some time ago, fails, curiosity remains unsatisfied. Who is the man who disappeared from the website of a “Zeit” Foundation institution? And why was he pushed out of the digital nest, er: network?

The latter first. The accusation is harsh, the accusation is sexual assault (what a euphemistic word) to be taken seriously first. The German-American journalist, born in 1982, who writes for the “New York Time”, the “Wall Street Journal” and Zeit Online, among others, and also teaches political science at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, is said to have raped a US journalist, as announced on the online platform X. »I am aware of the terrible accusation against me. “It is categorically untrue,” he said. And he was willing to leave his membership on the editorial board of “Zeit” on hold until the matter was clarified one way or another.

Mounk comes from a Jewish-communist family that lost numerous members during the Shoah, was exposed to latent anti-Semitism in post-war Poland, and refused to leave their homeland for a long time until they joined ten thousand others, many of whom did not define themselves as Jews at all and actually Those who wanted to build socialism were literally forced to leave the country. Mounk, who grew up in small towns in West Germany, reflected on this conflict and disappointment, as well as his own experiences with resentment or even hatred of Jews, in his 2015 book »Really you are a Jew? Foreign in your own country”. Two years later, he accepted US citizenship to do something against Trump’s re-election. He advocates “inclusive nationalism” in order not to leave the national question to the right, welcomes immigration and a multi-ethnic society, warns against the collapse of democracy and calls for the democratization of the EU. It is strange that such a committed contemporary should be averse to a minimum level of decency and morality, respect for the female sex. Like so many other men, especially prominent and sometimes intelligent ones. What’s wrong with the supposed crowning glory of creation? Carl Vesper

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