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More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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With all the current negative articles about the political and economic situation in Germany, I think it's also important to remember to share the positive ones. Although that's not to say there aren't worrisome things going on here.
There's another article from this morning here, it might give you a more complete picture of what's happening: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/21/germany-afd-party-deportation-masterplan-protests
There are more protests happening across the country today, the one in Berlin is at 4 pm at Brandenburger Tor. See you there.
Okay, so I finally googled it. Theyre angry because the AFD is anti-Islamic terrorism, anti-EU and pro-German?
Man, I must be missing some translation here or maybe some context, because that all sounds like reasonable things.
Recently a group of journalists revealed that the AfD had a secret meeting with far-right extremist groups and neo-nazis where they made mass deportation plans for people with a migration background (even those born here with German nationality) which includes millions of people. That's what sparked the protests.
And the AfD is far more than anti islamic terrorism, they're hardcore islamophobic, antisemitic, queerphobic and ultranationalist. There's a reason one of their most prominent figures, Björn Höcke, is legally allowed to be called a fascist and a nazi.
The AfD is considered far right Nazis, did they have a meeting with themselves?
Im not seeing anything remotly anti-semitic on wikipedia, but I havent exactly put in the research time yet.
To be perfectly clear:
You acknowledge them as far right Nazis... and see nothing wrong with that?
I acknowledge that they get called Nazis, not that they are Nazis. There is a difference.