Oktoberfest staff launch mass campaign against 'far-right hate speech'... which organisers confirm isn't actually on the rise

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A: Oktoberfest staff have launched a mass campaign against "far-right hate speech" despite festival organisers insisting there has not been a rise in exactly that.

B: Around 170 serving staff at Munich's Oktoberfest have banded together under the banner "Waiters against the Far Right," a campaign challenging what its members describe as a growing tolerance of hateful rhetoric at the world's most famous beer festival.The initiative was set up by two young waitresses identifying themselves only as Fanny and Anna.

negation mismatch

A: Oktoberfest staff have launched a mass campaign against "far-right hate speech" despite festival organisers insisting there has not been a rise in exactly that.

B: The pair have served together at the Oktoberfest and other folk festivals across southern Germany since 2022.They say they have grown more and more unsettled by certain exchanges they overhear on the festival's famous benches.Their supporters make up around a tenth of the festival's total front-of-house workforce, estimated to number between 1,500 and 2,000 people.The catalyst for the campaign was the AfD's commanding victory in Saxony-Anhalt on September 6.Anna told BR, Bavaria's...