Louis, are you really too stupid to understand that if someone advocates that every American has a right to health care, or that every American has a right to tuition-free public college, and the establishment reaction is, "no, that's impossible, that's pie in the sky, that's magical unicorns," so the person says, well, the UK does, Denmark does it, so how can it be magical unicorns, it is NOT a refutation to say, OMG! the UK is racist! Denmark is racist!
A necessary precondition for the left to make political progress in the U.S. is that the ultra-left be isolated and marginalized. Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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