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Right wing politics in New Zealand? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Hello everyone,

so I'm not actually from New Zealand, but from Europe and I'm currently very worried about the rising popularity of facism and alt-right politics in my country and europe in general. I'm very scared of experiencing physical violence and I'm now very seriously considering moving to another country before the facist parties are elected into power. One of the countries I'm considering is New Zealand, because there wouldn't be that big of a language barrier and also because I haven't heard of a lot of problems with facism in New Zealand. So I wanted to ask you if my judgement is correct and what the political situation regarding the alt-right is like in New Zealand.

Thank you for reading. I really appreciate your help :)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm originally from Europe, The Netherlands, I feel it's going much worse over there than here. E.g. over there it's now common that high school kids have got knives on them to school. That was unheard of 10+ years ago. Even my direct family says it's better to stay here.

I've noticed people here are still much friendlier & relaxed than e.g. Europe.

No country is perfect, NZ is behind in things like infrastructure, but it's still a great place to live IMO.