Questions of participation and unconscious bias with respect to race and gender seem no longer at the centre of discourse. For a few years, it looked as though something was shifting in Germany’s cultural institutions. Berlin, ever proud of its progressive image, rushed to be the ultimate role model for diversity. It attacks cultural institutions that platform marginalised voices, framing them as anti-German and extremist. The anti-diversity backlash is not just fatigue – it is a strategy.