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Scapegoating, in this case, is a consequence of an action. Not the other way around. No, I can not speak for other countries but I do follow international news. And that tells me that right wing parties are gaining a massive following all over western Europe, that's no coincidence.
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You're getting this backwards - it's those parties that put racist ideology into people's heads, not existing racism putting them in power.* I mean, as a racist party, it's in your interests to establish a feedback loop.
I don't believe the man in the street would give a toss about immigrants if there weren't a dozen tabloid newspapers and extremist parties telling him they were the spawn of Satan. Like Nate said, they're profiting off people's desire for simple solutions.
*One need only look at the British National Party's electoral performance to see that voter support for institutional racism is usually pretty low.
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I'm not being racist, I'm being realistic. Here's why I don't like Moroccans. I think Moroccans are destroying my country.
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'Nuff said.
Criminal intent is not endemic to a certain ethnicity. I can't speak for the Netherlands
(not so hard, right?), but if the average Dutchman dismisses Moroccans as flippantly as you do, it's not very surprising that they're turning to crime.