Sativied
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We had that guilt trip thing you mentioned going on for a long time too. Since WWII we had a similar programming as what UncleBogus became enslaved to. Schools, left politicians (most of them, right was a dirty word even without the extreme prefix), both dutch and hollywood books and movies made us, as teens anyway, have a similar simplistic view. We used to race bait small town folks and kick the shit out of neonazis, hooligan style. Difference besides being real life that we did that with a group of friends from which most didn't even know exactly where their parents came from.
While racism is always such a hot issue in the US, most of us don't see a difference in skin color, don't care about race. It's not just an idea here, we have so much living proof that being from a certain race never implies inferiority. Surinamers (brown) and Antillians (black) are to me as dutch as it gets. So are many of the Turkish Dutch. Many of those non-white dutch would however rather start send some muslims back home instead of stopping or reducing muslim-immigration. That must be incomprehensible to UncleBogus, which side do you choose if they both have colored skin or both aren't white caucasians... which side do you tell are evil nazi racists, which side do you tell is weak and needs to be saved if you can't label one as jew and the other as nazi, or one as white and the other as black...
Nowadays, I hold nothing against the Germans. They too were fooled by a populist who talks and walks very much like UncleBogus, trying to silence the opponents by demonizing them. I actually feel a little sorry for the Germans who are currently protesting against islam-immigration (the amount, of course...). They have a valid point (germany gets most immigrants who merely have to enter any EU country), just like some of the complainers in NL (after all, we're besides a few islands and asian countries the most densely populated country in the world). They recently wanted to open a new asylum centre with 300 male Syrians here in a small town with barely 300 white small-town christians. Every time they complain they have to prefix it with disclaimers like not being racists or having something against muslims, before they point out how absurd the situation is. Now THAT is absurd.
For the Germans it's obviously even harder, yet it was amongst others Merkel (that's the female pm of Germany people...) who said multiculti utterly failed. It's an example of one of the moderate, centric, parties recognizing the problem so it's no longer silenced by extreme left and no longer left to extreme right. The thing the educated Dutch Turkish Muslima in that left-winged TV show suggested too, the radicals on both sides should shut the fuck up, for reasons portrayed so nicely in this thread and many others in this subforum.
We have developed, over the past decades, a form of humor/comedy that targets specifically those stuck in that black and white world of false dichotomy. Similar to ridiculing righ-winged extremist. A sense of humor enjoyed by people from many different races and backgrounds, I mean, what's funnier than a black guy or a muslim comedian reverse race baiting when the outcome is so hardcoded... racist! hitler!
