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I don't think it's simple racism if you had to endure several terrorist attacks. Not all Brexit racism/xenophobia is pure dumb racism too, there are lots of issues under the surface.
I'm rather pissed off how Exit blamed everything on immigration and then when the pure racist/xenophobic fuckwits feel they're right just slinks away like they had nothing to do with anything. No excuses, no nothing.
The attacks in France were BLAMED on Islam, though by the time things have been investigated it wasn't Islam, and even if it was, this isn't a reaction that makes anyone safer. But saying "oh, we never had these attacks but it's OK nothing to do with anything" isn't going to work.
The other side is of course that currently Islam is promoted as THE cause of terrorism, which doesn't hold true in all cases. That's media bias/dumb politicians (Hollande shouting about more bombing the next day)/lazy stereotyping.
As with Brexit, it's complicated but it also empowers the racists/xenophobes as there's no counterbalance and no nuance.
Bear in mind that IRA terrorist (Irish out...) and "socialist" terrorism (Rote Armee Fraction) lead to overreactions also.TL:DR Don't empower assholes, don't put in moronic laws, but don't avoid the issues either.
JWestland-
I don't think it's simple racism if you had to endure several terrorist attacks.
It pretty much is. It doesn't take a lot of intellectual consideration to see the difference between those that are perpetrating acts of terrorism and those that aren't. After all, all of those attacks have been perpetrated by men but nobody is calling for a blanket law governing the behaviour of all men. In fact if you're going to pull out the terrorist attack argument, that makes it worse because women haven't perpetrated those acts but are the ones being subject to scrutiny of "good morals and secularism".
All this really is just very simple racism. There may be a lot of elements that used as justification that but ultimately all of it leads to the descrimination of one group of people with a shared cultural identity. It's actually not that complicated at all.
The_Seldom_Killer
Kind of, it's being seen to do something for an audience of racists.
Its kind of makes our Brexit related racism seem pretty tame in comparison.