Ok, "bigotry" rather than "racism"
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It's mutual, though, wouldn't you agree? At any rate, it's gone beyond that, to ostensibly liberal leaders increasingly acceding to morally evil solutions to appease the fascists, across the Continent.
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I'd definitely say the Germans & Dutch went overboard during the crisis, which didn't seem a problem to the "elites" & was certainly deliberate I've always thought this was seminal to the rise of Europe's right. They got their way then, no pushback, & were emboldened.
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No argument there, but "the Germans and the Dutch" aren't politically unidimensional. Fascists across the bloc act as a militant hive mentality, with localized priorities, and we should treat them as such.
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No, they're not, yet guess who keeps on winning elections there?
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That's a dynamical systems issue, as much as it's a polsci one. Extremist/totalitarian agendas are an easy sell to populations made to feel threatened on a financial/security level. Not to say that I absolve anyone voting for fascists, free will always applies & has consequences.
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See? You're more forgiving than I. Patience for anyone who chooses, "I don't care what happens to everyone else, just don't bother me with it" is non-existent here.
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I try to be understanding, I'm not as forgiving as I'd like, it's not the same thing. I don't think I can be, as long as historical patterns reasserting themselves are leading to hecatombs and the resurgence of age-old nightmares.
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@papicek yes but Dublin us basically a Herman invention, the "Drittstaatenregelung" that amended & weakened* the right to asylum in germanys constitution as a European agreement. *btw the reaction to a string of deadly racism pogroms - the Bundestag kowtowing to Nazis -
Interesting. I didn't know that, thanks.
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Me neither, much obliged
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Well, it certainly has a lot to do with not-in-my-backyard thinking & a good deal of racism - toward Greeks.
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