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Who faced severe criticism and threats on social media for speaking out against racism?

  • Geert Wilders

  • Mark Rutte

  • King Willem-Alexander

  • Sylvana Simons

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Sylvana Simons is a Dutch politician, activist, and former actress who is of Afro-Surinamese descent. She has faced severe criticism and threats on social media for speaking out against racism and discrimination in the Netherlands. In 2017, she was forced to cancel a speech she was scheduled to give at the University of Amsterdam after receiving death threats.
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