An Open Letter to Obama: On Danish Racism

Jacob Holdt & Rune Engelbret:In the spirit of optimism, and the courage to hope for real change which has been kindled throughout the world by the historic election in the United States, we hope to bring to your personal attention, and to the awareness of the American public the distressing state of affairs in our own highly privileged corner of the world.

We wish to express our deep concern at the incremental rise of racism and the use of racist propaganda in mainstream Danish politics over the past decade.

Ethnic and religious minorities are demonetized and marginalized. Discrimination and hate-filled rhetoric reminiscent of anti-Semitic propaganda of the 1930's has become an accepted part of the Danish political debate ...FULL TEXT: http://www.panhumanism.com/letter_to_obama.php

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• DF
• Racism

[TheJazuma]

what the fuck has this got to do with obama? does he control denmark? no. then why they fuck would you want him to look at this video? this is nuts.

[radsted]

The man who made this video, Rune Engelbreth, is actually a racist.

He supported the racist libyan rebels.

/watch?v=Rs1On-yGqGU

[larsik555]

@KatrineJakobsen I am not racist and not muslim but I am telling you, one day your country will be ruled by muslims.May be in 100-200 years.Denmark is a very small country and Danish on average have 2 kids.Muslims have more kids +extended families,arranged marriages etc.I seriously think that your nation is very closed and you marry each other(Danish+Danish) and it's not very healthy.If you take a country like Latvia,there are lots of Russians/Polish/Latvian/Belaru­sian(big genetic pool).

[larsik555]

Danish let muslims in first and now they are afraid of immigrants...Because muslims keep on having children and extended families. What did Danish think about when they let muslims in?Anyway,I think that Danish nation is so small.They live on their islands for centuries and breed only between themselves.I would not like to live in Denmark as a foreigner.

[123ayatou]

@LSKEJ88 ...leaving most of us broke?What's that got to do with you?You were born in America,the country that gave refuge to your parents therefore you should worry about America's crisis.And anyway,who in his desperate life choose to live in a frozen land where it's people are all suffering by S.A.D. and killing whales for fun.Most of your cousin danes are on the dole living in the UK.You give $50 millions i wouldn't even dream living in this tiny borough call Denmark.

[SocialistCatgirl]

@SocialistCatgirl

Guffaw may not be the right word. Perhaps "hollers" is better.

[SocialistCatgirl]

Don't you think you're exaggerating just a LITTLE bit? I mean, come on. You said that Dansk Folkeparti is the most influential political party of the last decade. Wouldn't that title be best conferred to Venstre or Det Konservative Folkeparti?

And given that the next PM is going to be from Socialdemokraterne, not DF, I don't see how the National Conservatives are blowing away Danish politics. Sure, Dansk Folkeparti guffaws about Muslims a lot. But they're NOT powerful, not yet.

[AmerikaBlue]

So let me see if I understand this. Asian countries , middle-eastern countries as well as African countries can all have societies that favor their race or religion but European countries who would like to retain their Caucasian culture are called racist if they place strict immigration laws in effect. Something stinks here and by the way Pres. Obama has his own problems none I bet concern Danish politics.

[MrFakunda]

why are you whinging to obama anyway? what the fuck has he got to do with denmark?