Racializing Those “Other Europeans” – An East European Intervention

Growing up as a committed anti-racist in Eastern Europe, Ferenc Laczó used to think the idea that there can be racism against white people was both false and dangerous. Until he moved to the Netherlands as a student at the dawn of our century, that is, where he soon discovered that negative stereotypes about East Europeans—stereotypes that assign them lower value and ought therefore to be qualified as racist—are something of a commonplace here, just like in neighboring West European countries.