Mailbox Think full with dreigmails to Sylvana Simons – The Guardian

NIJMEGEN – According to researchers from the Radboud University Nijmegen and Utrecht University, it appears from studies that more and more Dutch people agree with gross, negative statements about ethnic minorities. The mailbox of the political party Think speaks volumes.

for months long, there dreigmails inward to partijgenoot Sylvana Simons. “If we in the media, we see a peak in the derrie that we receive’.

Suriname
She is ‘a whiner’, ‘back on the boat to Suriname. Or her Think-colleagues Tunahan Kuzu and Selçuk Öztürk: back to Turkey with the ‘filthy Turks’. Strolling in the mailbox of the upcoming political party Think delivers a host of nasty reactions. Blatant insults alternate with disguised, or sometimes very direct threats. For a number of applies that the repetition of this newspaper go too far.

Reason for Second Deputy Selçuk Öztürk to disclose. Especially now that threats according to Think have culminated in the security of their upcoming politician Sylvana Simons. Last night was her party announced that the National co-Ordinator for Counterterrorism and Security (NCTV) ‘visible and invisible measures, takes to her to keep safe.

Derrie
The allegation that the action also the ‘histrionics’, is refuted by the contents of the duimendikke folders of printed e-mails and social media posts that Think has collected evidence. This be regularly to the police have been sent for examination.

Öztürk calls the with a look at all of the woes ‘very, very sad’. But ‘unfortunately unavoidable’. ,,Every time we in the media are, and Sylvana in particular, we see a peak in the derrie on social media and in our mailbox.”

in the Meantime does Think own research. Because messages on the websites of Geenstijl, the Daily Standard and The Post Online would mean extra oil on the fire, says Öztürk. ,,We try and make this relationship now, because those sites are also using inciting words like “beroepsslachtoffer’, or ‘wacky Nederlandhaters’. That raises even more hate.”

Sylvana outlawed
Simons himself has let us know not to consider her throw to the Kamerlidmaatschap to cease. The former television host was already a bit used to it, after they had previously conjectured as criticaster of Zwarte Piet and was promptly treated to a ‘uitzwaaipagina’. With the announcement in June that the National march would like to participate on behalf of Think, is ‘no less’, says Öztürk.

The electronic maledictions Sylvana Simons poured out upon will, fit according to director Roderik van Grieken of the Dutch Debate Institute in a trend. ,,If someone is an outlaw is declared, then suddenly, everything to be said. Then it goes of a banana eating a step further. With a simple press of a button, you will reach the whole country, provided that it is rough. And so it is becoming coarser, because whoever means, reaches no one”, he says.

According to the Greeks, is the in the case of Sylvana matter what she says, her appearance on tv or internet alone, turn the locks to open. ,,That we know from classical rhetoric: the messenger is dominant, not the message itself. Everything Sylvana says is for a large group in advance, it is not correct. Its image weighs extremely heavy.”

Still more
Simons is not alone. In the first half of this year did politicians all 200 reports to the special team of justice that the threat of mps deals. In 72 cases there was persecution started.

According to researchers from the Radboud University Nijmegen and Utrecht University, it appears from studies that more and more Dutch people agree with gross, negative statements about ethnic minorities. Where, in 1985, less than a quarter of the native-born population is negative uitliet about ethnic minorities, that in 2012 had risen to more than half. That is true for lower and higher educated people.

How to stop this? Think-foreman Kuzu makes an appeal to prime minister Mark Rutte: ,,Give a signal to the country, that this is no longer possible.”

Kuzu made itself known that Simons protection. The question is whether this is the case further helps. Of Greeks believes, for instance, that the attention that media devote to the haatberichten that Sylvana will receive, eventually, only lead to the ‘fan mail’ even dirtier. ,,The netherlands can take an example to America. There is, for example, Hillary Clinton on the internet is frequently compared with, among others, Hitler, but the media let that go. Everything can be said but that is not to say that everything also gets attention. That is a much healthier response.”