Debate about Tesla boss
Senator defends her “Nazi” expression to Tesla
Berlin’s working senator speaks of “Nazi cars” in connection with the manufacturer Tesla. Then there is significant criticism. The SPD politician reacts.
Berlin’s social and work senator Cansel Kiziltepe defended her “Nazi” expression over the car manufacturer Tesla. “Tesla is currently experiencing a sales dull because the company attributed the right-wing extremist positions of his shareholder Elon Musk, who holds around 13 percent of the company,” said the SPD politician on Portal X.
“I expressly stick to my assessments of Elon Musk. Of course, this does not mean that I am responsible for the employees or the customers of Musks for his political positions.” Musk, who advises US President Donald Trump, encounters growing criticism with extremely right political views.
On Thursday, Kiziltepe wrote on X: “Who also wants to drive a Nazi car? Manufacturers of e-cars experience sales high-apart from Tesla.” Criticism then came from Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD): “Against the background that in the Tesla plant in Grünheide, among many Berliners, people from around 150 different nations also work, this statement by a work senator is completely out of place,” he told the “BZ”.
Minister of Economics considers the statement to be completely inappropriate
Brandenburg’s Minister of Economic Affairs Daniel Keller (SPD) asked Kiziltepe to take back the statement. “Such a Nazi comparison violates the people who work there and is completely inappropriate for a working senator,” he told the German press agency.
Berlin’s CDU parliamentary group leader Dirk Stettner also criticized Kiziltepe with clear words: “This is a dangerous relativization of the Nazi terror and thus also of the Holocaust,” he said. “The senator urgently should make it clear that she did not intend to do so in any way.”
dpa
Source: Stern
