@aral you can legally ban the Dutch from acting racist, but rest assured we’ll even commit human rights violations while pretending to find final solutions [pun very much intended] for our previous racist actions.
A little background: the ruling parties of our country have for years been placating the far right (their voters and ex-party members) by removing all but one location where asylum seekers can go to register. This with the intention of making life so miserable for refugees, they’d go “bother” another country. All with the quiet part out loud (although our famously forgetful prime minister certainly won’t have an “active memory” of that).
Now not only are those people (including kids ffs) still sleeping rough and left adrift, but the anti-immigrant sentiment in the small villages around the centre in Ter Apel (because of course this festering disaster is not located anywhere near the seats of power) is constantly flaring up. All of it intentional and part of the design.
Then, to solve the mess our neoliberal right wing leaders intentionally and wilfully created, our cabinet and governing parties decided to postpone refugee family reunions. Which was…
[checks decision by the courts]
… effin’ illegal. https://nltimes.nl/2023/02/08/dutch-government-cant-limit-family-reunification-refugees-council-state-rules
You can’t make this stuff up.
Okay, gotta stop my slide down this hellhole and calm down now.
/rant
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