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Tomorrow, the Dutch will vote in
municipal elections. In Rotterdam, the VVD (People's Party for Freedom and
Democracy), the right-wing liberal party of Prime Minister Rutte, is
campaigning with an election poster featuring the text In Rotterdam we speak
Dutch ("In Rotterdam spreken we Nederlands").
This official expression of
intolerance in one of Europe's most diverse cities is part of the general
backlash against multiculturalism that has swept over the Netherlands since the
early 2000s. The new political correctness is that diversity is bad and that
immigrants have problems because they refuse to integrate. In the recent past,
some Dutch politicians have even proposed to outlaw speaking foreign languages
in public spaces.
