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Europe Is Determined To Make Racism, Respectable and Mainstream
And this could lead to world war three.
It was an article which I read here, which got me seriously riled.
Rebecca Stevens A. wrote quite powerfully about the state of affairs of the country where she’s grown up — Switzerland; about the degree to which the polity has lurched to the extreme right and making her feel like a second class citizen.
But let’s have it right, what’s currently happening in Switzerland isn’t different from what obtains across the continent.
In Hungary, you have a far right democrat —Viktor Orban — who was voted into power on account of his extreme rhetoric on immigration. Orban is a huge favourite of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine, which won great sympathy across the world, is as extremely racist as it gets and we all got to see this for ourselves when the invasion began February 2022 and its African students were treated with the profoundest contempt.
Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria and Croatia are crawling with racist and fascist politicians who would happily exploit the refugee crises for political gain.
Surely this is a East European malaise, the countries across the west are much more sophisticated?