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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 17:49:11 JST Aral Balkan

   Dutch border police told to stop ethnic profiling

   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64647272

   Apparently all it takes is a court order for a European country to not be racist.

   #EuropeanValues #Netherlands #eu #racism

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 18:03:37 JST Aral Balkan

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     • European Commission
     • EU Rights Agency

     So Dutch border police have been told by the courts to stop ethnic profiling… Hey, I wonder, can we do Belgium next?

     Whaddaya say, @EU_Commission, given you’re headquartered there and all? You down with the racial profiling being carried out at the borders?

     Any thoughts, @FRA?

     Any local politicians/MEPs want to take this on?

     https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109812465785722901

     #Belgium #brussels #racialProfiling #ethnicProfiling #profiling #racism #eu #europe #humanRights

   • alternative_be✅🖖🏻 (alternative_be@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 18:13:01 JST alternative_be✅🖖🏻

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     @aral @EU_Commission @FRA I couldn’t agree more. In #Belgium conditions for refugees, undocumented migrants and homeless of all nationalities are atrocious.

   • Konstantin :veripawed: :veritrek: :rainbow_pride_potion: (konstantin@m.iamkonstantin.eu)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 18:14:33 JST Konstantin :veripawed: :veritrek: :rainbow_pride_potion:

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     @aral @EU_Commission @FRA maybe while they’re at it they can tell the security guy in Carrefour that he doesn’t need to approach me every time I pass by the self scan.
   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 18:20:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     Maybe someone should create a web site where we list which EU countries carry out racial profiling and publish the experiences of people who have been racially profiled at EU borders. 🤔

     Maybe we can use the fediverse to gather those experiences…

     Here, I’ll start:

     I was racially profiled by Belgian border police two weeks ago at Brussels Airport.

     https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109812465785722901

     CC @EU_Commission @FRA

     #Belgium #racialProfiling #ethnicProfiling #racism #eu #europe #humanRights #EuropeanValues

   • Sardo (sardo@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 18:24:39 JST Sardo

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     @aral, oh, tell me the fun I have with my Uzbekistan passport :)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 18:24:39 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Sardo

     @sardo If you’re up for it, please tell everyone. Let’s shine a light on this bigotry so we can hopefully relegate it to the dustbin of history:

     https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109890656744759629

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 18:39:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     Oops, did I just register the domain racial-profiling.eu? I might have.

     🙊

     CC @EU_Commission @FRA

     #Belgium #racialProfiling #ethnicProfiling #racism #eu #europe #humanRights #EuropeanValues

   • Christoph Kappes :very: (christophkappes@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 20:57:19 JST Christoph Kappes :very:

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     @aral @EU_Commission @FRA
     Hi, I am just writing a text about AI today, is there any source for AI based racial profiling in EU?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 20:57:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Christoph Kappes :very:

     @ChristophKappes @EU_Commission @FRA I don’t personally know of any but I’ll boost your post in case anyone else does.

   • ⠠⠵ avuko (avuko@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 21:01:29 JST ⠠⠵ avuko

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     @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.

     https://www.dw.com/en/council-of-europe-slams-the-netherlands-over-mistreatment-of-asylum-seekers/a-63004755

     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

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 21:03:05 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Lea de Groot 🇦🇺

     @leadegroot Oh, likely it’s been far less than that.

     I have no reason to believe my experience or that of the two Belgian citizens of Turkish birth who were in there with me or the other Brown and Black folks in the “waiting room” was a coincidence.

     Belgian border police are racially profiling EU citizens as a matter of course on a daily basis. This is policy.

     #belgium #brussels #racialProfiling #racism

   • Lea de Groot 🇦🇺 (leadegroot@bne.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-Feb-2023 21:03:06 JST Lea de Groot 🇦🇺

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     @aral "it has been [ 2 ] weeks since since someone was racially profiled at [Brussels Airport \/]"
     ?
     :(

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 16:57:18 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Felipe Baez :verified:

     @felipebaez I’m so sorry to hear it, Felipe. Here’s hoping the recent court ruling will improve things. But I’m not holding my breath.

   • Felipe Baez :verified: (felipebaez@postchat.io)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 16:57:19 JST Felipe Baez :verified:

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     @aral my family has quite a bad experience with the Dutch border police. My family member never wants to visit Netherlands because of it. It even wasn’t her final destination, Amsterdam was just the connecting flight to Prague, coming from Dublin. EU country to EU country.

   • Erik Jonker (erikjonker@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 17:45:03 JST Erik Jonker

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     • Felipe Baez :verified:

     @aral @felipebaez ....actually proud of our court system in het Netherlands, it's independent and works, ofcourse the important thing is actual change in behaviour, i am optimistic, this ruling gets a lot of attention also with the police.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 17:45:03 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Erik Jonker
     • Felipe Baez :verified:

     @ErikJonker @felipebaez 🤞

     (I still have folks in the Netherlands argue with me that blackface isn’t racist so there’s a long way to go.)