With unemployment in Greece hitting 22.5% of the workforce, a political party has decided to do some thing about it and is distributing provisions outside the parliament building in Athens. One must be pretty desperate to queue up for handouts, but sometimes one just has to swallow one's pride and survive. At least there is a caring soul on the other side of that queue keen to ease your plight. So it is your turn at last and as you reach out you are handed a generous portion of... racial abuse. "You are not Greek: then you are not welcome. Go away." And just in case you looked Hellenic, your identity card was checked. You guessed: the party in question is Greece's Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. Who else could mock people in need so callously?
Well actually, a lot of governments do exactly the same. Benefits are dished out robotically, but heaven help you if one of the ticks on that form is missing. "You do not meet the criteria: you are not entitled to anything. Go away."
We had better beware, for sadly, it is not only the Neo-Nazis who are losing their sense of humanity.
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