Originally posted by: CanOWorms
Originally posted by: Tango
Where do your stats come from? Because my stats come from the elections results... it's funny that those 66% of the people that you say are racist vote for left wing party that actually ask for a more free immigration policy. Why do they do that? And about Rome you have misunderstood. In Italy they don't even re-impatriate immigrants with no documents, unless they commit a crime.
Really you are exagerating... those xenophobic parties just get 3% to 4% of the votes...
My stats come from a poll commissioned by the Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs Directorate (DGV) of the European Commission. It involved 16,154 people. The data was analyzed by the University of Michigan and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
You are thinking too narrow-mindedly. Far-right ideas spread from fringe far-right parties into the mainstream. You have to look at more than just election results of fringe parties. Plus, it's pretty easy to see examples of xenophobic parties get more than 3% to 4% of votes. France & Le Pen, Switzerland and the Swiss People's Party, etc.
BTW, Italy illegaly deports refugees all the time.
And anyway I claimed Amsterdam to be the most liberatated city because of the drugs and prostitution policies it has, the 100% tolerant attitude towards gay people etc etc..
Actually, Amsterdam's eroding tolerance towards gays has been in the media often recently. I wouldn't call it 100%. Again, you completely forgot about racism when thinking about being liberated, and the Netherlands suffers severely from that.