Instead of whining about how horrific the opposition are I hope the Danish left has learned from the US's mistakes and created a solid platform of their own.
Just wanted to "???" at this. The Danish social liberal left is the foundation of the country's economic structure. The Danish left shouldn't "learn" to have a platform from the US, the parties have had each of their specific electory platforms for decades (well, those that existed for so long at least). I'm actually really confused what you mean. I know that you aren't saying that the non-American world is just passively staring at the US to learn their policies, but it reads like that. So I wanted to exclaim my confusion and/or answer what you might have meant:
If this is about having a platform about race/immigration. There are intricacies in regards to the treatment of it, but the left generally wants to provide language schools, nurture job programs and otherwise grant immigrants basic economic and social rights. All the basic social democratic stuff, but basically implementing professionals in regards to what best serves as a path from immigrant to productive citizen. The right has recently ridden a platform of intentionally providing less subsidies to those projects, less subsidies to individuals (ending up with immigrants in literal poverty), intentionally closing or cutting the budget of language schools, increasing penalization and deportation, create very expensive and unnecessary increased border patrol, all that stuff. The left has a platform and presents it every election, and unlike in the US, the parties are smaller and as such have a much clearer idea of what they want to do.
The platform is there. Now I'll give you, it may not
show that well. And that's a problem when trying to sell politics, since it's unexciting legwork. The left's "We know that this works and have known it for some time, so we're going to keep donig it" vs the right's "We're gonna start a border patrol in Jutland and CATCH ENEMIES", even when the media points out repeatedly that the border patrol is ridiculously costly and does basically nothing but stop confused elderly Germans who forgot their passports.
(Yes I vote left.)
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In regards to the discussion on race, it doesn't really matter to the discussion whether race is a thing or not. Because it's treated as real. Muslims mean brown people in the racists' eyes the vast majority of the time. The
usage of race intentionally undercuts itself regardless of race existing; the people that want Muslims out claim that it's because of culture, but their usage of Muslims refers to near universally nonwhites. And even so,
discrimination against religion is defined as racism under Danish law. This is one of the reasons the right/racists/identitarians/*******s (whatever your preferred definition is) carefully word their criticisms not to be about race, nationality, ethnicity or religion, but about
culture. As that clause isn't included in the judicary framework. (And if culture were added, they'd switch to another definition.) This thread's whole discussion of what exactly constitutes race is fuel to the fire for these people, as they just want the browns+Somali out of Denmark, or to be similarly limited. Arbitrations and abstractions about what race constitutes allow them leverage in their rhetoric which is
based on them wanting to practice discrimination. It's not really that complicated.
Like the infamous burqa ban. It wasn't possible under our law on racism, so it was rephrased by the
major right parties, not just Danish People's Party, but the Conservatives and Right, to be about a "mask ban" instead. This disallowed usage of masking in public. Naturally, this is a dogwhistle and the police basically only enforces it against the intended Muslim clothing.
(I don't like burqas, no, but banning clothing doesn't solve anything and is a major break with traditional Western values. There have been instances since where burqa-clad women were attacked or abused in public, such as a convenience store, an assault
supported by the store workers.)