“Caynear”-Clanung: This term could harm Olaf Scholz enormously

One of the most common speculations in political Berlin in the past few weeks was: Will Friedrich Merz make a huge mistake shortly before the finish? After all, the CDU boss and Union’s top candidate for his limited impulse control is known.

Now exactly the Olaf Scholz seems to have happened. A report of the “Focus” Accordingly “Yard” the CDU. Chialo is the son of a Tanzanian diplomatic family.

Scholz himself wrote on the short message service X of one “private birthday party”in a conversation with a journalist about that “Common coordination behavior of CDU/CSU and AfD in the German Bundestag” went. He had on the objection that there were also liberal voices in the CDU, that very few of these liberals had opposed the CDU leader Merz. The term related to it was “not racistically connoted in language use and was never so intended by me”.

He did not specify the term exactly what he had related. Also a spokesman for Joe Chialo “an incident” confirmed. Numerous Union politicians reacted publicly with great outrage and solidarity for chialo. “Black is beautiful” tweeted the CDU vice Julia Klöckner with a picture of the cultural senator on X. SPD general secretary Matthias Miersch throws this “Focus” however “Targeted campaign work in the sense of the CDU” before.

Olaf Scholz is not a racist (just as Friedrich Merz is not a fascist). If he had even the slightest tendency, this would have been noticed in a career in which almost every step has been accompanied by the public for a long time. It also does not match the nature of Olaf Scholz.

Nevertheless, he could be fell into the trap of unconscious racism. Which, without wanting it, is connected to centuries -old pejorative patterns and pictures. The court fool is one who is in the status far down. Its existence is linked to keeping the ruling happy. A joke figure, a useful idiot. The term is impressed to evoke entire association chains of racist representations.

The “black man” As a flagship object that colonial conquerors brought with them from their travels to demonstrate it in their homeland. As a constant supporting figure in film history, which the advisor or critic of the white hero was allowed to be, but he was always assigned to him in a serving, lower role.

Scholz certainly never even remotely remotely in mind. But the question must be allowed whether he, for example, the vice party chairman of the CDU, Karin Prien, one “Hofnärrin” would have called? Or would he not have considered that such a name could be interpreted as sexist?

And wouldn’t he have had to think about that people with a migration background repeatedly experience racism and that ambivalent terms in connection with them are particularly inappropriate?

Scholz has now switched on the famous media lawyer Christian Schertz. He should now capture what no longer seems to be captured. At least this shows that Olaf Scholz knows how much he can harm his remark.

The process is reminiscent of the laughter of Armin Laschet at a performance in the flood area in the Bundestag election campaign 2021. Only that this meant a turning point for the then Union top candidate. Scholz, on the other hand, has been in the polls behind Friedrich Merz for weeks. However, the current process could make the expected defeat of the SPD even more massive.

The fact that this did not happen to an open-ended Friedrich Merz, but the cool-controlled Hanseatic Scholz, shows how much the pressure is on it on these last meters of the election campaign.