I’ll give you that, racism against brown muslims was the reason they were elected.
But this is not the first time a party was elected because of racism.
No one is winning elections campaigning on kicking out Slavs.
But parties have been compaigning against them. Take a look at how media was representing “Russian-Germans” in the early 90’s. Spoiler: just the usual. “They’re stealing social securities from families, getting everything handed to them…”.
Or how populist media has portrayed Greeks after the financial crisis:
Sell your islands, bankrupt Greeks!
This is how Greeks are wasting [our] beautiful euros
You won’t get anything from us!
Not a single drop of racism to be seen in here, nope.
Don’t get me wrong, anti-Muslim and anti-brown racism is rampant in Europe.
But that’s only a subset of European racism, racist Europeans despise any and all refugees, regardless of skin color because they despise amy culture different from their own. Perhaps for the first two months of the Russian war of aggression they pretended otherwise. Afterwards however, the same. Identical. Populist. Talking points. Were used as in 2015.
I’ll give you that, racism against brown muslims was the reason they were elected.
But this is not the first time a party was elected because of racism.
Or how populist media has portrayed Greeks after the financial crisis:
Not a single drop of racism to be seen in here, nope.
Don’t get me wrong, anti-Muslim and anti-brown racism is rampant in Europe.
But that’s only a subset of European racism, racist Europeans despise any and all refugees, regardless of skin color because they despise amy culture different from their own. Perhaps for the first two months of the Russian war of aggression they pretended otherwise. Afterwards however, the same. Identical. Populist. Talking points. Were used as in 2015.