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Racism? In Europe?
Next you're going to tell me far-right political parties are on the rise there.
Are there any countries where right wing parties aren't on the rise?
People are pissed off brother! /s It is a concerning trend, but I think social media and the need for inflammatory news headlines have driven a lot of these ideas into the open. I think racism, xenophobia, and blind nationalism has always been everywhere and we have given a way for some of the more racist/crazy/extreme people to speak out. It just shows us how much we still have to grow as a society.
Failed neoliberal policies and mismanagement (or lack thereof) of globalisation made people more inward-looking and nativist.
But as far as I can tell, Latin America is having a "pink wave", which made the right stop on their tracks there.
The UK. The Tories are fucked and Reform UK isn’t really likely to get beyond minor party status.
Well the next UK election seems to swing the other way.
Tories are about to bite the biggest one imagineable in the UK, and the AfD has definitely gotten into some serious shit after that Nazi conference came out
How many are just changing to labour?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While racialised minorities make up an estimated 10% of the EU’s population, MEPs from these groups accounted for just 4.3% of the total lawmakers in the last mandate, according to analysis by the European Network Against Racism (ENAR).
What is probably happening, according to a recent study based on interviews with 140 MEPs and staffers, is “normalised whiteness” in the parliament is helping perpetuate racism, leaving those who seek to confront discrimination feeling as though they are “shouting to a brick wall”, in the words of one interviewee.
While he described his overall experience as an MEP as positive, Chahim was left rattled last year as suspicions swirled over allegations that Morocco and Qatar had bribed EU politicians and staffers to promote their interests.
Herzberger-Fofana, Germany’s first MEP of African origin, said she was brutally pushed against a wall by four officers, who ordered the septuagenarian to stand with her hands up and legs spread as they searched her bag.
Kuhnke said the lack of diversity would take on even greater importance as EU lawmakers turned their attention to crucial issues such as the regulation of artificial intelligence, pointing to the growing body of work that has laid bare the biases and racism that exist within AI tools.
Caro Maya cited the “serious risk” political parties were taking if they refused to include communities such as Roma – Europe’s largest ethnic minority – on their electoral lists.
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