Lou is absolutely right on this. Denmark is social democratic only for Danes. The People's Party is for excellent welfare but only for Danes. So yes Danish social security is pretty racist. I knew a young Danish pizza store owner. He was born in Denmark of Turkish ethnicity but as Danish as Danes could be. Every time I went to pick up my durum kebab he would rail against Danish society. Clearly something was not right.
Anthony xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Chair & Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies Australia India Institute and School of Social & Political Sciences University of Melbourne, 147-149 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 3 9035 6161, http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/ <https://owa.unimelb.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=KGdpeyp6YEyjUaiENKoAtx8nOn9uStAIlCVtCNE3uLxqkGIwkWdEYjJXILfPlddrM0Q1713syQQ.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.aii.unimelb.edu.au%2f> Podcast: https://theconversation.com/speaking-with-anthony-dcosta-on-the-challenges-facing-indias-economy-43913 CONFERENCE: http://idsk.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Instruments-of-Intervention_prog_abstract_final.pdf <http://idsk.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Instruments-of-Intervention_prog_abstract_final.pd> *Just Out Book: **https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415564953 <https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415564953>* *New Book: *After-Development Dynamics (on South Korea) http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198729433.do *New Book Series (Dynamics of Asian Development)* *http://www.springer.com/series/13342 <http://www.springer.com/series/13342>* xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:07 AM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > On 3/3/16 8:58 AM, Robert Naiman wrote: > > I guess that according to the ultra-left, the Social Security system is > > intrinsically racist, since you have to have a Social Security number to > > receive Social Security benefits. > > You really need to get out of your liberal comfort zone to get an idea > of what is happening in Denmark. This is from the NY Review of Books, > not the Spartacist League: > > When it comes to refugees, however, Denmark has long led the continent > in its shift to the right—and in its growing domestic consensus that > large-scale Muslim immigration is incompatible with European social > democracy. To the visitor, the country’s resistance to immigrants from > Africa and the Middle East can seem implacable. In last June’s Danish > national election—months before the Syrian refugee crisis hit Europe—the > debate centered around whether the incumbent, center-left Social > Democrats or their challengers, the center-right Liberal Party, were > tougher on asylum-seekers. The main victor was the Danish People’s > Party, a populist, openly anti-immigration party, which drew 21 percent > of the vote, its best performance ever. Its founder, Pia Kjærsgaard, for > years known for suggesting that Muslims “are at a lower stage of > civilization,” is now speaker of the Danish parliament. With the backing > of the Danish People’s Party, the center-right Liberals formed a > minority government that has taken one of the hardest lines on refugees > of any European nation. > > full: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/03/10/liberal-harsh-denmark/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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