CDU chairman Friedrich Merz complains about cancel culture and the excessive "fight against the right"
The Christian Democrat went on to say: "In my view, the greatest threat to freedom of expression is now the culture of censorship, which is also called 'cancel culture' in Anglo-Saxon parlance. I see with great concern what is happening in universities in the US; this is now also spilling over to Europe.”
In this context, Merz referred to the case of a biologist whose lecture on gender at Berlin's Humboldt University could only take place under police protection after left-wing students cheered. "This is the opposite of scientific freedom and lays the ax on one of the most important achievements of an enlightened society."
Source: Junge Freiheit