How a small nation’s pragmatic, humane approach exposes the lie behind America’s manufactured “crisis” and offers a roadmap for defeating the racist strongmen weaponizing immigration for power…
The most gruesome feature of the Trump/Vance/Miller regime is their glee in brutalizing nonwhite people and terrorizing anybody who objects or tries to hold them to account. Their entire rationale is that the barbarity and savagery are “necessary” to deal with millions of “illegals.”
Denmark is onto something that could blow up their entire excuse for this violence against both people and our Constitution, and Democrats need to pay attention.
Back in June 2008 I did my radio program for a week from the studios of Danish Radio in Copenhagen.
Razor wire in the sunrise, shadows waitin’ at the gate,
Families walk from fire only to meet another state.
Little hands on chain-link fences, tired eyes that plead for grace,
A journey made for freedom ends in fear they shouldn’t face.
’Cause the cruelty ain’t a bug—it’s the whole damn plan,
Turning hope into a weapon in the heart of this land.
But we can guard our borders without losing dignity;
We can choose the road of mercy over cold strategy.
The most gruesome feature of the Trump/Vance/Miller regime is their glee in brutalizing nonwhite people and terrorizing anybody who objects or tries to hold them to account. Their entire rationale is that the barbarity and savagery are “necessary” to deal with millions of “illegals.”
Denmark is onto something that could blow up their entire excuse for this violence against both people and our Constitution, and Democrats need to pay attention.
Back in June 2008 I did my radio program for a week from the studios of Danish Radio in Copenhagen.
Continue @ Hartmann Report.
The weaponization of immigration is something that has been a concern of mine for quite some time, and not just by the "racist strongmen" alluded to in this article. It's the age old classic magicians sleight-of-hand trick. Politicians and the powers-that-be adopt this technique of having you focus on one hand so you don't pay attention to what they are doing with the other. Immigration is currently one such particular topic of focus that has people's attention to that hand, but what is the other hand doing?
ReplyDeleteComparing Danish policy to that of Trump is all good and well, but the question in this article's title I feel is framed to a certain extent. One could ask, did Denmark find a "better" answer to immigration than Trump? One could also ask, did Denmark find the "right" answer to immigration?
The Danish model has recently come up more and more frequently. I haven't done a deep dive into Denmark's immigration policy yet, but looking at my notes, I see I have circled "Vulnerable Residential Areas" as something of concern that requires closer attention. Until a more thorough analysis is complete, I wouldn't be quite so quick to hold up Danish immigration policy as "the answer".
"Immigration and accepting refugees is fine, in other words, but only in numbers that allow for successful integration into society. Social scientists have found that when those thresholds are exceeded, the result is a loss of social cohesion, a rise in racism and bigotry, and political chaos that can even threaten democracy."
ReplyDeleteWhen Ireland experiences it's first Jihadi attack or the mass rapes of it's women by north African men as Cologne did 2016 then the penny will drop.
Steve - I think you're going over old ground from an angle that I thought was addressed reasonably well on a previous post's comment section.
DeleteAs we've already discussed in other posts, it tars everyone with the same brush. If there were to be an attack of any sort, that does not become a reason to tar all immigrants. I would not seek to label everyone from an anti-immigration stance as racist. I see a brief mention in my news feeds of yet more home-grown natives guilty of despicable sexual crimes, yet I would not seek to label every native a paedophile, on that matter I also notice the usual rabble that hark on about protecting women and children are eerily silent on the latest native crimes. In regards to Ireland, it has a long history of attacks carried out by various groups, yet I do not seek to label every Irish or Brit based on that. The question is, why would anyone seek to label all immigrants in such a negative fashion based solely on the actions of the minority?
The last two articles here on The Quill regarding immigration were reasonable, in that they encourage discourse and progression on the topic without coming at it from any obvious race, ethnic or xenophobic orientation. More specifically, they were policy focused.
The angle you take is more likely to result in stagnation rather than progression. It also contributes to why the label racist is not, as you claimed on a previous post, "redundant". Although I make clear that's not an accusation.
Here we are, again, with another discussion dominated by having to dispel notions related to fallacious argumentation, under an article that seeks to advance discourse on policy. Stagnation.
It does nothing for progress when these types of comments occur, or when such thoughts are harboured, and it leaves question marks when people advance this type of argumentation, and then try and duck for cover behind economics when others rightly point out the flaws.
It's fine to have concerns about safety and security, but best not to run afoul of double standards, hypocrisy and fallacy, hopefully this particular penny will drop.
I'd like clarify my previous comment where I noted "The last two articles". That was solely down to my specific recollection at the time of commenting. There are other previous immigration articles here on The Quill with the same reasonability, I meant no dis-respect to those Authors.
DeleteSteve - reposting this due to a few confusing typos in the previous one!!
ReplyDeleteThe penny dropped recently when there was a huge outburst of violence in Ballymena from indigenous Irish. It is now looking that racists not rapists were exclusively involved, many of whom have been warned or cautioned over sexual and domestic violence.
Immigration works much better alongside integration, offsetting the rise in ghettoisation, but the pretence needs dropped that crime waves are a foreign national thing.
It is laughable for City West rioters to claim they are concerned about an alleged young rape victim when they have yet to do anything about the priests who have demonstrably been raping children for yonks. We often see those screaming most about immigrants serving as apologists for the institutional abuse of children.
Anthony, Stevie.....
ReplyDeleteWe often see those screaming most about immigrants serving as apologists for the institutional abuse of children....
Anthony, isn't that also called "hiding in plain sight"?
Stevie,
To get a good grasp on whats happening on the Island---Watch Ireland's Far-Right: Britain's Latest Export (part 1) and Ireland's Far-Right: Britain's Latest Export (part 2)
I stand by my position that immigration needs to be controlled, I never said halted. My observation about the penny dropping was a prediction though I will agree with Anthony's point that there is significant hypocrisy regards doing nothing about priests while vaunting concern in City West about children.
DeleteAnd Ballymena was brewing for years due directly to the behaviours of the Roma community there. Hard to call the whole thing racist in it's entirety when Polish, Filipino and many others weren't targeted. If there were more Poles and Filipinos there there wouldn't be a problem as they integrate well there and in Loyalist areas of Belfast where I'm from.
But I concede there would be racist elements involved as there is everywhere.
And thanks Frankie I will try to have a watch over the weekend.
Steve - I distinctively remember Filipinos as well as other ethnic minorities being targeted in Ballymena. When you say "loyalist areas", does that include Sandy Row? Integration is becoming just a buzzword, a trigger word, lacking in any context or meaning by many that use it. I have no idea what you mean about a penny-dropping-prediction either.
DeleteReally Matt? Id be surprised if they were. They are lovely people. And no, not Sandy Row.
DeletePerhaps those particular grouping of Roma would have found things much more to their liking in Republican areas? I don't seem to remember any Republicans offering them safe haven either?
Steve - there was not just significant hypocrisy in relation to the rapist priests, it was also very evident in Ballymena where drug dealers and gangsters existed long before the arrival of Roma. And as Matt points out the racist attacks were not just against Roma - people from other nationalities were targeted.
DeleteMuiris might be more aware of how Roma are treated in nationalist communities. I think he felt there was a significant racist issue. Within those northern nationalists communities there is a considerable body of people willing to come out and tell the racists where to go. Seemingly not so in loyalist communities. But that is secondary for present purposes. Racists are racists no matter where they hail from. The racists down here are not from unionist communities but they are no less racist for that. However, they do remind me so much of my experience with loyalism in the North.
While not excusing any criminal or antisocial behaviour, Roma, gypsy and travelling people have always been othered and sufferred the Pojaros genocide at the hands of the Nazis.
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