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This was certainly true 20 years ago
They were going door to door in northern Ireland looking for brown people just a few months ago.
Pretty much all of European progressive tolerance went in the trash can after the Syrian refugee crisis.
I'm an immigrant to Europe and when the Syrian refugee crisis happened 10 years ago, I knew it will cause tensions.
I think people are generally tolerant of foreigners but something unconscious in the mind of many people is triggered and think "okay too many".
But at the same time, something that the anti-immigration and the far right never addressed is that the world, not just Europe, is experiencing population decline. Counries simply need more people to work. The far-right blame the foreigners but never have any plans afterwards to address the population decline. Or rather, now that I think about it, they won't say it until foreigners are gone, but they want to force back women to baby churning roles. I remember arguing with a crypto-fascist who is anti-globalist and he doesn't have answers to the declining workforce apart from implying to force women to make more babies. It is though as if the low birth rate isn't to do with the economic system not being family friendly. Have we heard the far-right say they will increase the wages? No. It's because, ultimately, the far-right are corporatists and their goal is to not empower workers.
Oh, they absolutely say that thing about women. It just gets overheard over all their anti-immigrant screeching.