Overview
- In Funke Mediengruppe’s podcast, the Tübingen mayor confirmed he will continue using the so‑called 'N-word' and said there is no reason to erase specific terms.
- Palmer compared tabooing the slur to hypothetically saying 'H-word' for Hitler or the Holocaust, calling such avoidance absurd.
- He rejected what he called moralising about individual words and said efforts to regulate language anger people and drive them to the AfD.
- Palmer maintained that offense stems from how a word is used to address someone, not from uttering it when discussing context or literature.
- His stance follows earlier controversies, including a 2021 Facebook post about ex-footballer Dennis Aogo that led to a probe later dropped, and his 2023 exit from the Greens after a Frankfurt incident in which he invoked the 'Judenstern' and later called that episode a severe mistake.