[youeseh]

I understand that many Europeans think that racism no longer exists in Europe - and I've never been there to see for myself - we do get the occasional story of black athletes getting bananas thrown at them in Italy, something that is weird and just plain racist. A person caught doing that in America would be permanently banned from the venue.

[p_l]

It's not that racism disappeared, it's more that from European point of view, skin colour is like "Baby's first racism". We have long history on hating on much more detailed differences that appear to have disappeared from public perception in USA due to its special relationship with slavery and effective apartheid.

So ultimately hating by skin colour is both more recognised and bad, and has less targets, so we keep our "good old" prejudices that go into sometimes minor things and occasionally get hilarious when people interact all nice because they aren't aware of the other person being from hated group

[prmoustache]

I don't think anyone say racism disappeared. I only said there has been a general consensus that human races do not exist. That do not means people suddently like people of a different color, accept other cultures or want to see them express their due freedom of religion.

And I think most of the racism was kind of hidden as something people would keep for themselves or in close circles. Trump has recently acted as some kind of enabler and we see a resurgence of far-right people in many european countries not being afraid of plainly expressing their hatred and politician and writers not being afraid of getting fined.

I would say the future is kind of cloudy in many european countries right now and probably all over the world in that regard. We are kind of back in the 1930's, just with better tech.