An Open Letter to Obama: On Danish Racism

[Yoda Power]

This Youtube video has gathered some attention in Danish media.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nLyWR9bMVw

While being poorly made, and having an openly bias, it's still pretty accurate I think.

What does people think?

 

[Loppan Torkel]

I'm not impressed, it wasn't very good and too long. I can't say I'm too worried about this yet. Racism shouldn't be accepted and some of those quotes were pretty bad, but individuals will always say stupid things. If they systematically try to demonize certain groups, I agree, it's despicable, but otoh criticizing groups or religious views can be acceptable within some degree. There's always two sides.

One problem is that no conventional party like to talk about integration problems because of the risk of being slandered for it. When nothing happens, in this case, 12% of the population gets frustrated enough and vote for the one party that doesn't avoid the issue.

Reducing immigration or introducing restrictions for new immigrants to help the integration process isn't racist, just to state the obvious.

 

[EnglishEdward]

I find it quite bizarre that a section of Danish society should invite the democrat Barack Obama, the President of a foreign country that has a constitutional right for free speech, to interfere with the freedom of speech and the democratic electoral process in Denmark.

 

[luiz]

What I can't understand is why they feel the need to warn Obama. Is Obama president of Denmark? Do danes feel like a colony of the USA? Why don't they send an open letter to their own president, or to some EU authority, or someone that actually matters in Denmark?

I mean, I don't send letters to foreign heads of state to complaint about what I think is wrong in my own country. It makes no sense. What do they expect Obama to do? Use his magical powers to end racism in Denmark? Send the marines to storm over Copenhagen?

 

[bhsup]

Well, I should point out that religious intolerance isn't racism, so I'm not sure why they are calling it that. They also seem to be playing up the importance of the party in Danish politics from what I can tell. Almighty wiki says they only get 13.5% of the vote and have one member in the European Parliment.

Mind you, their rhetoric is pretty darned extreme and I'm surprised they get even 13.5% of the vote, but I can't see how that translates into 'the most influential party of the last decade' by any stretch of the imagination.

I'm leery of having an American President speaking critically of a political party internal to a US ally, though. For one thing, it might just have the opposite effect that the makers of the video are hoping for. I know I wouldn't take kindly to any European chief executive sticking their nose into internal American politics, and the Danes may well feel the same way.

Oh, and honestly, I would have preferred it in written format. Irritating to watch it on Youtube with scrolling text, and the background music is irritating as hell.

 

[Cutlass]

Interesting. I've heard that extreme-right parties are stronger now that they were. But how much momentum do they have? Are they headed for majorities anywhere?

 

[Winner]

In short:
It is highly biased multikulti touchy-feely nonsense.

The quotes are far from being racist (what race are they supposedly accusing of being inferior?) and I suspect they cherry-picked them just to make an impression (wrong one) and that they were taken out of context. The one about them being in year 1005 is in fact accurate, they demonstrated it by their reaction to few harmless cartoons published in small Danish newspaper. Of course, they add an anti-semitic comment made by a fringe far-righter to add emotional charge. Pathetic. Being opposed to Islam is racism? Islam is a race? Since when?

The same goes to the part when they protest against the campaign against islamization - obviously, not wanting to turn your country into an islamic theocracy is now called racism. Who are they trying to impress?

People in many Western European countries have had enough of this "let's be nice to Muslims", "let them call for Sharia law and war against infidels", "let them burn our embassies when we dare to exhibit our freedom of speech" crap, so they're turning to radicals. As sad as it is, it's a natural reaction to being ignored by the mainstream parties. Poeople like the authors of this "open letter" have practically forced many people who just want to protect their European and Christian cultural identity into the arms of populist-right parties. Democracy at work here.

All the comparisons made to Nazis etc. are such an utter nonsense that it's laughable. They're trying to Godwinize the whole thing and thus suppress all opinions opposing the official multicultural ideology. By accusing their opponents of using Nazi-like methods, they lower themselves on the level of Goebbels - so who's talking here...

So again, this is just another useless piece of multikulti pseudo-intellectual vomit.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

358 views and low quality. The Danish pot smokers are as impressive as ussual.

My answer The first 10 seconds are in Swedish.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Who cares about Muslims, how about followers of ancient Mesoamerican religious traditions emigrating to Europe?

 

[Winner]

358 views and low quality. The Danish pot smokers are as impressive as ussual.

My answer The first 10 seconds are in Swedish.

THIS cartoon video is much, much better

Oh, and this one about THE RELIGION OF PEACE is also good.

 

[Verbose]

God forbid Danish politics should be about real problems!

Thanks to Dansk Folkeparti, the Bright Young Thing of Danish politics in the last decade or so, it probably won't, not even with the global recession looming.

That could be a bit of a problem.

Fortunately these bearded Danish hippies are actually right about drift in political attitudes. Since the DF has already sorted out the blame for, well everything really, I'm just going to sit back and watch the show.

Other than that, I blame Grundtvig.