NDR employees demand Julia Ruhs's dismissal because of migration documentary: This is authoritarian!

One wonders where your gasping outrage has gone, dear NDR employees, you who are on the right side. After all, the pilot episode of the new reporting format "Klar" aired just 14 days ago – plenty of time to attack it, label the format "right-wing," and—of course!—demand the immediate dismissal of our colleague Julia Ruhs. What is wrong with you?

Otherwise, you wouldn't waste a second of reflection, pause, or consideration before crying "treason!" Your calls for the dismissal of colleagues who dare to express their own opinions would otherwise pop up in real time on all channels. Should we be worried about you, you guardians of the good and the true? Are you perhaps getting on in years? Do you even doubt yourselves? Or have you finally read your employer's bylaws and realized that you are legally required to tolerate a plurality of opinions ? Stupid, right?

It is no longer enough to shout “racist”

Well, in your internal letter to the broadcaster, which is now public, you once again left no drama out to cool your temper. It's a shame that you've missed the boat and still believe that shouting "Racist!" is enough to be right. Because Julia Ruhs, the young reporter and presenter of the show "Klar – Migration: Was falsch läuft" (Clear – Migration: What's Wrong) , merely presented a program that had its own tone and was obviously aimed at viewers who had long since tuned out of the public broadcaster. If she had gone as far as to trample on democracy and the rule of law, as you insinuate, then entirely different bodies would have taken notice. Because you, the public broadcaster, are in crisis! Have you heard? It's about a loss of trust. There's a lot at stake for you.

Julia Ruhs simply made a show for people whose lives and the discussions within them far too rarely find themselves reflected in your programs. No, not all Nazis, rather very few of them. Julia Ruhs even apologized to you in advance, as we all have been doing for years, right in the first sentence: What's about to happen, she said at the beginning of the show, won't please everyone. Have you ever apologized for your perspective? Hell would freeze over first.

I bet you didn't even discuss the show with Julia Ruhs, didn't even sit down with her and exchange ideas. You wrote the letter, anonymously guaranteed, and sent it to your superiors. Why do you care about other people's opinions and feelings? If someone doesn't suit you, fire them! That's the authority of the anti-authoritarians. If you had even the slightest idea what it's like to live in a totalitarian system and use its stylistic devices, you'd be ashamed.

No, you wouldn't.

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