Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Dutch government resigns: Tax authority wrongly accused families with child benefits of fraud" video.

Journalists like this are part of the problem too because they want to tell their own stories and have ignored the real problem. The victims weren't racially or etnically profiled, they were profiled on dual citizenship, which actually is a risk factor for fraud. They weren't allowed to so that is a breach of the rule of law and allthough serious enough by itself, it's a minor side issue in this case because starting an investigation into fraud wasn't what got people into trouble. That was the way the investigation was conducted and led to sanctions without getting a proper chance to defend oneself, with failing judges allowing cover ups by the civil service. If journalists had done their job like scrutinizing government and the judicial system rather than claiming racism where it's not it wouldn't have gotten this bad.
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@tuntejaable It was not because of their ethnicity. They were profiled for investigation based on several risk factors, one of them was dual citizenship and that wasn't allowed but that's just a very minor part of the massive breach of the rule of law that happened here. Beeing investigated shouldn't have been much of a problem if you had done nothing or little wrong, but it was because the civil service, the government and the judicial system failed them massively and for a very long time which went unnoticed because the media were busy convincing the people how great this government and the judicial system was.
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@tuntejaable No, the reporter just made that up. They used dual citizenship as one of five indicators to start an investigation. In 2015 the law was changed which meant it was no longer allowed to have data about dual citizenship. They failed to destroy those dat and kept using them. That's why they got a slap on the wrist from the privacy authority Citizenship is a legal situation. It's not ethnicity, it's not race and names have nothing to do with it. One of the reasons for the law change was to avoid the risk of ethnic profiling, because it could be used indirectly for ethnic profiling. But for fraud the foreign citizenship is often a risk simply because the other citizenship with all it's rights makes it easier to commit fraud and easier to get away with it.
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