Germany is in the final weeks of the campaign for the election of the Bundestag on 26 September, and streetlight poles are full of posters for parties and candidates. Today, I saw a poster for the far-right Alternative for Germany [AfD] claiming that "a border is there to be protected" above a poster for the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany calling "for the right to flight [Flucht]" (that is, the right to become a refugee [Flüchtling]). Mostly, it's the juxtaposition of the two that I want to note, but as is so often the case, the AfD's claim is patently absurd: the border between Bavaria and Saxony is not protected, after all. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 11 September 2021)
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| Grenzach-Wyhlen, Germany |
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