What I have been recently observing in German media is more than worrisome. @Tagesspiegel, a daily newspaper, just published yet another column degrading anti-racist movement, defaming that BlPoC activists are turning themselves into "slaves," "although there isn't any chain." 
What's more: the writer, who asserted in last week's column that antiracists might be "making business," says now that the apology by @SZ for publishing personal attack on @igorpianist , a Jewish-German pianist, marked "the lowest point" of German press freedom for her.
Last year, @SZ published an "album review" of Igor Levit, which was rather a personal attack on his advocacy for critical awareness for anti-Semitism in Germany. German journalist and author Carolin Emcke wrote a thought-proviking piece on it:
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Fatina Keilani's take on Twitter is close to that of conspiracy narrative. Blaming it for overrepresenting critiques of racism in the German discourse, she plots the scenario that journalists, influenced by the platform, might be bonding in the media world to forge the critiques.
With the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, you might have believed that such conspiracy narrative have come to its end. But @Tagesspiegel sports it again. Keilani's column generated thousands of clicks last week and she gained several hundreds of new followers as well.
Quite interesting that Keilani does not respond to the criticism that unlike her assumption, it is not anti-racism, but racism that makes money in Germany. Who is making business with what content in this discussion?
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