Don’t believe a word you read today about how a charismatic Dutch politician beat ‘the Dutch Trump’ in the elections by appealing to reason. It’s bullshit.
A very conservative very right wing Dutch politician beat ‘the Dutch Trump’ by being super racist himself. That is all.
We’re still fucked. We’re just fucked by your typical racist capitalism instead of full genocidal fascism.
16-03-2017
One, capitalism isn’t inherently racist. Two, what has Rutte actually said that’s racist?
There is a looooot of writing out there about the link between capitalism and racism so I’m gonna jump that question. If you’re genuinely interested: google it. Jumping to the second point:
Tone examples:
1. VVD had the islamophobic slur ‘kopvodden’ (ragheads) on their election poster.
2. VVD had the ‘In Rotterdam we speak Dutch’ election poster and other public condemnations of people speaking their mother’s tongue in public.
3. Rutte told immigrant to ‘adapt or get out’
4. Rutte defended blackface
5. Rutte said that ‘with too many refugees the Netherlands will no longer be the Netherlands’ and many other things that spread an unrealistic fear that immigrants are ‘destroying our culture’
6. VVD parlement member Cora van Nieuwenhuizen said immigrants who can not speak Dutch should be denied benefits, basically denying them food and shelter and life.
Real stuff done while in power examples:
1. Made it illegal to wear the niqab
2. Criminalized giving food and shelter to undocumented people
3. Worked with other parties in the EU to close all roads into Europe, forcing refugees to take ever more dangerous routes, resulting in thousands of deaths each year
4. Is working to limit the freedom of movement of Antillean Dutch from the Antilles to the Netherlands
An incomplete list. There is way way more but I don’t have a resource list handy.
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