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So here's an immigrant perspective; as an Eastern European in Western Europe I see that the wealthy are using me as a cudgel to keep the locals down. I'm paying quite high rents in a market where a lot of the locals in different careers can't, and there is a housing crisis. The place I'm renting could be where someone's kid would move out to.
And it's partly German neocolonialism that fucked up Eastern Europe, so thank Merkel I'm here, since it's this or the VW factory.
That said, the people who kept the whole literal city awake honking their horns last midnight while waving Turkish flags, or the Moroccan teenagers accosting everyone near my place, including hurling abuse at my Asian or queer neighbours don't scream peaceful coexistence.
I think the argument to make here is that those people should be dealt with on an individual level rather than demonize an entire group. For every Turk honking their horns in your city at midnight, I am guessing there were exponentially more sleeping or trying to sleep but they couldn't because of the small number of assholes honking horns.
Of course, but if you put those few hundred into jail for the night to cool off, the paper will run that you are putting hundreds of Turks into jail, you racist.
Easier to just put in earplugs to ignore it, and pay for driving lessons so your wife can avoid the metro in the evening, but you ignore it for a decade, and now somehow nazis have the vote, and we are afraid of being caught in the crossfire as we already are, facing workplace discrimination and such.
I know it's not an easy problem with a clear solution, but it's a problem.