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@Syphilia @Are0h @BlackAzizAnansi @mekkaokereke When I was young, the Dutch were certain that we were the most tolerant nation in the world. We weren't racist! We dealt with that at the end of WW2. Racist parties would never get more than one seat in our parliament. Also, we were a merchant nation, and racism was bad for business, so we'd always been this tolerant (let's not mention the slave trade, okay?).

Then, about 20 years ago, one racist party after another kept popping up. Suddenly racists were coming out of the woodwork everywhere. Every time someone pointed out something was racist, racists would quickly deny it and demonstrate their racism.

Maybe we were just good at pretending we weren't racist. Or at least good at fooling ourselves.