Colonial amnesia

Weidel - AfD - racism

Colonial amnesia, the rise of the right and everyday racism

Column
Ana Deumert
24/10/2017
4 minutes to read

Ana Deumert does not believe that the success of the AfD can be explained as a strutural break. On the contrary, it reflects something which has always been there: white supremacy, racism and, its repressed cousin, colonial amnesia.