Not content with working towards banning the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), German leftists are now discussing denying organ donations to the right-wing opposition party.
Julia Probst, who represents the Green Party in Weißenhorn, this month launched a poll on her X account, asking:
Imagine you had to decide whether to donate a family member’s organs. You happen to know the recipient votes AfD. Would you still donate?
The question prompted a good number of critical responses, including from the left. But more than a quarter of the poll’s 3,800 voters still said “nein,” they would not donate.
Das ist im Kern der Gedanke von höherwertigem und unwertem Leben – und dieser Gedanke ist immer brandgefährlich, egal ob von rechts oder wie hier von links. @EinAugenschmaus (Eine von den Guten, leider bin ich blockiert.) #Organspendepic.twitter.com/fWcLwZwFPC
Probst has since locked her X account and a search for the poll brings up this result: “Hmm…this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.”
But German weekly Junge Freiheitquotes one self-described “AfD opponent” respondent who, as a first responder, “first helps a person and not a ‘party affiliation.’” The writer said linking organ donations to party affiliation was “inconceivable.” A “right-handed but left-thinking” person also joked: “The wording of the question is very confusing to me. Do I have left-wing or right-wing blood?”
Another user described the intention as “eugenics” by making a “distinction between ‘worthy’ and ‘worthless’ life.”
Others noted that Probst’s post contrasted her supposed “fight for inclusion”—typical of the ‘open’ Left—saying this is “apparently only for people who fit into her political worldview,” as opposed to “subhumans like AfD voters.”
Such a ban should remain impracticable, but other similarly concerning measures are already being carried out, as evidenced by a German doctor last year removing an AfD politician from his patient list because of his affiliation.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
