The cancel culture, vehemently denied by those who exercise it, is showing its totalitarianism more and more undisguised in Germany as well. Its latest victim is the well-known ancient historian Egon Flaig. He was invited by the archaeologist Andreas Grüner of the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen in the middle of the month to an evening lecture on the topic “Individual freedom versus political freedom. The Polis in European Republicanism”. A week earlier, however, Grüner withdrew the invitation because, as he meekly confessed, his own dean had “asked” him to do so. Behind this “request”, however, was a solid threat: Flaig is considered “controversial” in left-wing circles – because, among other things, he points to the historical fact that the slave trade was not the exclusive domain of whites, but that there were also black slave traders, and that Islam in particular also engaged in the slave trade for centuries.
Being “controversial” was once considered a desirable attribute in the academic discourse space, but similar to the equally pejorated “lateral thinking”, it is now already considered a kind of scientific death sentence. This is a thorn in the side of the pseudo-science of “anti-colonialism”, since in this delusion only white people can be racist or behave immorally. Moreover, Flaig had also spoken out against mass migration. Therefore, he is, of course, considered “right-wing”. For these reasons, Flaig should have been denied an appearance at the University of Osnabrück two years ago.
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