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The ban on red-laced boots, bomber jackets and clothes with the Dutch flag is basically a ban on the neo-nazi skinhead uniform. There were similar bans in British schools during the 1970's when the fascist identity was popular among our more rebellious school children and more insecure adults. The "people" who get harassed by "immigrants" and "leftist intellectuals" for displaying Dutch flags on their cats are actually just one anecdotal person whom we know nothing more about.
I think its worth remembering that Europe has quite some experience with fascism and how it breeds given that it's been a feature of European history for a couple of thousand years in one form or another. It's as welcome here as muslim extremism is, not that you'll get that impression from extrapolations from ideological op-ed pieces such as this, especially when international prejudice is taken as a substitute for being informed about the more subtle aspects of what's going on. I know for a fact that Americans know what it's like to be on the receiving end of that sort of willful ignorance.
De Telegraaf is a traditional right-wing paper which often prints opinion pieces like this one. To put it in a context that American right-wingers would be able to identify with, it often takes similarly distorted interpretations of things like this to attack its ideological opposites rather like the Guardian does in Britain and Michael Moore does in the US.
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