It was irresponsible and cowardly not to call Hetzer what they are for a long time. A democracy also needs this ability: to divide.
Perhaps you have to start again to question the meaning of the words, otherwise they will become meaningless. Perhaps the definitions have to be sharpened again, otherwise everything will become blunt and uniform. Maybe you have to spell out what deserves which name, otherwise the differences will be lost. Because otherwise everything is drowned out in this infantile nihilism of freedom of expression. Perhaps a dictionary of democracy is needed that describes the vocabulary that a democratic community needs if it is to remain democratic and communal. The last few years have been marked by a deliberate blurring of language, which has abraded and played down all the contours of the radical, as if everything somehow belonged to democracy, even that which destroys democracy. As if everything had to be incorporated somehow, even that which the community explicitly and openly rejects. The ingratiating gesture of taking one’s fears seriously has always been one that only those who could not feel the hatred and fanaticism of the supposedly fearful movements could afford.