Ian Buruma predicts the coming of a war against tolerance

"When 'tolerance' becomes a term of abuse in a place like the Netherlands, you know that something has gone seriously wrong", writes Ian Buruma in a column for Project Syndicate. "There is a sense among many Europeans, not just in the Netherlands, that they have been abandoned in a fast-changing world, that multinational corporations are more powerful than nation states, that the urban rich and highly educated do fine and ordinary folks in the provinces languish, while democratically elected politicians are not only powerless, but have abjectly surrendered to these larger forces that threaten the common man. Tolerance is seen as not just weak, but as a betrayal."

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