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South African vigilante group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members of the country's most-prominent anti-migrant street movement.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems people everywhere have a strong tendency to deal with hardship by blaming some more or less arbitrary group and attacking them. It's fuelling the rightward political lurch all around the world.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It's an age old tradition, but it's not and arbitrary group it's always a minority group. Maybe it's the Jews, maybe it's a certain ethnicity, maybe it's just a political ideology.

The easiest thing to rally people around is the excuse that it's the outside group that's ruining your country.