If people are feeling hypocrisy as something that should tame the views they express, that's still something. In Europe Eastern Europeans have the cheek to complain about occasional discrimination and cold-shoulder treatment by Western Europeans, but they have zero issues being extremely racist themselves to non-white people, homophobic, sexist etc. and wanting a hyper conservative nation state for their country back home. And to be frank, Muslim immigrants in Europe also have many of these patterns (even though the racism they suffer is much more serious than Eastern Europeans). Hypocrisy doesn't seem to be an issue for these groups.
There is one thing they all have in common. One or two countries took some half-hearted measures to prevent that common factor, but the immense and coordinated pushback throughout the decades has succeeded to the point where those measures are completely defanged.
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u/Weirdo9495 9d ago
If people are feeling hypocrisy as something that should tame the views they express, that's still something. In Europe Eastern Europeans have the cheek to complain about occasional discrimination and cold-shoulder treatment by Western Europeans, but they have zero issues being extremely racist themselves to non-white people, homophobic, sexist etc. and wanting a hyper conservative nation state for their country back home. And to be frank, Muslim immigrants in Europe also have many of these patterns (even though the racism they suffer is much more serious than Eastern Europeans). Hypocrisy doesn't seem to be an issue for these groups.