Media laden…
Europe is getting scarier by the day.
Most of you have probably seen the article about Belfast, where masked gangs went around trying to burn their city to the ground. They went looking for houses where migrants might be living, trying to destroy their livelihoods.
It is extremely scary, and you can see echoes of this everywhere in Europe.
Even here in the Netherlands. In Loosdrecht, people tried to set fire to an AZC where refugees were living. Multiple times, so-called “Defend Netherlands” groups have gone around trying to set fires, throwing stones at people, their houses, and the police, throwing smoke bombs, and generally making a complete mess of things.
It is so weird. Let’s say someone comes up to you, claiming they are going to protect you from migrants. Then they proceed to set fire to your car and trash can. After that, they try to set fire to houses in your neighbourhood.
Has defence taken on a new meaning at some point?
I just don’t know what to do or think anymore. It all feels so unsafe. I wonder whether I should stop reading the news.
Whenever I read that someone with a migration background has committed a crime somewhere, I get scared thinking about what new horrible thing is going to come out of it. Like clockwork, some idiot will blame all migrants and start a manhunt, blaming entire groups for something one person did.
Meanwhile, if a white person from the country in question commits a crime, people naturally assume that it was just that one person. It is incredibly hypocritical and racist.
While this has always been going on to some degree, the scale at which it has been happening lately is beyond frightening. It is getting to a point where I genuinely feel unsafe. It feels like we are always one step away from an explosion of violence. Just one person with a migration background committing a crime can set something horrible in motion.
I don’t know what to do about these thoughts and emotions, but I did want to put them on paper and get them out of my head. I have been feeling this way for the last four or five years, but never like this. I really wonder where this is all headed, and when Britain and the European Union will finally grow a spine.
We have been blaming migrants for everything that is going wrong in our societies for years, and now we are seeing the fruits of that policy. I really hope they start cleaning up their mess before it is too late. If they don’t stop blaming migrants for everything and start taking a hard look at themselves and all the internal racism, we might reach a point where something happens that cannot be undone.
Stop blaming the consequences of your own shitty policies on others, and start taking responsibility for them.