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Meanwhile On Grad
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Edit: I appreciate the effort
For the record, news articles are not evidence in my eyes. I have said this repeatedly.
That said, Reuters basically just says they were founded, they got investigated and got labelled a right wing group, and at one point, a Chinese spy broke into their office. How is any of that an indictment against them? They're clearly a right wing group. Right wing doesn't mean evil.
The Times is just using hyperbolic language and posting that one picture of a poster that might actually be real, but the more I look for it, the more I'm convinced it never existed.
The ABC just claims that the AfD sued over the extremist label, which Iouldn't really doubt, it makes sense for them to do.
And then you linked wikipedia. Like honestly, wikipedia is a known crapshoot when it comes to political stuff. And all wikipedia claims is that they want to prevent illegal immigration, which should be the default.
All I'm seeing is a party that wants to curb illegal immigration, and for some reason, everyone is calling them Nazis over it. Maybe they are a modern reincarnation of it, but I've seen no evidence for it. The more research I've done, the more I'm convinced that the AfD are just a normal right-wing party, and everyone is calling them Nazis over it.